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I was sitting around a picnic table with a few friends and a couple new people we didn’t know too well. Someone had the idea that the new people go around and predict something about each of us, who they had basically just met.
One of them went around and said something super nice about each person, like “you’ll get that job you always wanted” or “you’ll have kids that will end up doing great things” stuff like that, kind of impersonal but nice generic predictions.
When she got to me she stopped, looked at me really hard, and said “you’re going to die, sad and alone.” There was silence for a few seconds and then most of us started cracking up, because we were sure she was joking. But when we stopped laughing, I saw she hadn’t even cracked a smile, and she looked me straight in the eye and said “I’m serious.” Then moved on and said something super nice about the next person.
This was more than 15 years ago and it hasn’t stopped bothering me. Needless to say, she and I never became friends.
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What the fuck? Who does that shit? I hope she gets to experience what she tried to put on you.
Jesus Christ what the fuck
Maybe another stranger’s prediction will cancel it out?
Your final moments will be full of joy as you reminisce on a life well lived.
You will unfortunately, at some point, have an erection that lasts longer than four hours. You’ll need to go to the E.R. for it, but it’ll be fine and won’t affect your overall health.
Priapism. (sp?)
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never visited but I’m sure it’s a nice city
What the hell was her problem? Holy shit, that’s absolutely mental.
You have to work to make a living.
When I came back home from the hospital after my amputation, my wife of 30 years told me she didn’t sign up for this, packed up her things and left.
It makes you wonder what she thought she signed up for.
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Till death do us part… except
“Aaand just sign the amputation clause here right at the bottom. That’s it! You are now husband and wife!”
Covered under “in sickness and in health”
WOOF! What?! Holy fucking shit. I am sorry bro. THIRTY YEARS? No way. I’m sorry but I even find that a bit hard to believe.
This happens more than people want to admit, and it can be sudden after a period of support. Like someone gets cancer and their SO sticks by their side until it gets stage 4, things get really messy and hard, and suddenly they’re off starting a new life. My SO is a therapist and has seen it firsthand, it’s gruesome and cruel.
Motherfuckers starting second lives behind their spouses back and here I can’t find a fucking bridge partner.
My best friend got cheated on and dumped after he got diagnosed with epilepsy. It took a year of fits (one in which he screwed up his back) to get the diagnosis, and it basically meant he had to abandon his career path of working in the police force as a detective and forensic analyst and switch to something different.
It also doesn’t help that they both got sacked from a call centre whilst this was going on.
I mean it’s right there, “for riches and in health, till inconvenience do you part”.
Yeah, health. Not disease or amputation. It isn’t covered by the contract. You need the premium plan marriage package for that.
Wow. Im sorry you encountered this.
While thankfully I have had nothing amputated (yet… but im diabetic), ive noticed that each of several partners over the years has just been abominable at showing empathy.
For example, if I tried to tell my current SO that im feeling a bit down she would absolutely get the shits with me and tell me how shitty her life is.
Theres something about kicking a dog when its down that some people just cant restrain themselves.
In hind sight, would it have been helpful for your partner to give you a few months to recover before leaving?
If your SO can’t show empathy, that’s a good indicator they aren’t a good choice for a long term relationship.
Wow thats so insightful. Amazing. You should write a book or something. Boom.
Nvm, you deserve them.
Ooh sick burn. Im devastated.
PackeD HER things ? IM CONFUSED…
what were you expecting? she packed his things and then left?
Nice of her to pack my things I guess but now I have to unpack them again. Kind of redundant if you ask me but it’s a nice gesture.
Lol I’m an idiot… I’m my head he left… so was very confused why he took her things…😂😂😂
As if you signed up for an amputation. What is wrong with people!?
I have a bit of a story to tell about this particular question.
It’s a question I asked of myself.
Brought on by my sister calling child protective services on me after my wife died. She left me. With four children, and I was in mourning and not dealing well.
It led me the ask the most painful question of myself. Am I a good father?
The answer was no.
I wasn’t a good father. And I’m glad she made that call. It woke me up, and I changed everything around. Or at least, I hope so.
How long ago was this, and how are things today? Username doesn’t check out, I hope?
It was 15 years ago. It all worked out well. My kids grew up, well adjusted and loved, and we talk all the time. We’ve talked through what happened as well.
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Depends on the kind of crack. Maybe he’s a plumber.
I don’t love you and I don’t believe you that you love me.
It was two occasions about eight years apart. One was Mom calling to tell me Dad died, the other was my brother calling me about Mom.
Sorry for your loss, whenever it was. It’s never easy.
“you’re an open book”, like they thought they knew me and that’s all I’ll ever be
I used to compete in an annual competition in high school, one year I got 4th, the next third. You needed first to progress to national level.
A friend of my teacher said “when do you just shoot the horse” right in front of me.
Thankfully I never saw that guy again, but Jesus, what an asshole. That was the last year I did that competition.
What an absolutely awful attitude to have around children. Forget celebrating all you achieved, or the fact that you’re clearly improving, it wasn’t good enough after two attempts so just give up forever.
I’m so lost. I feel like I’m missing something obvious here. Are you the horse? What does this mean?
Probably a horse shooting competition
Yeah, he was saying how many times do I have to lose before they stop sending me to the competition.
What the fuck? Were there so few participants that 3rd was a bad result? High school has four years, right? 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st place, seems to me you were on track.
No, it was a province wide competition, and I worked really hard to prep. Top 3 was very good.
The first place people were always awesome.
Oh shit! That’s absolutely brutal.
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“Grandma died during surgery”. I didn’t call her the night before because I thought it’d be awkward and I didn’t acknowledge the risk of heart surgery.
It’s not you mate; we all think there’s always more time than there actually is.
No, that guy holding a swastika flag at a Nazi march isn’t a Nazi. You don’t know anything else about him!
I don’t need to, though - and now, I don’t need to know anything else about the guy who said that, either.
Damn straight.
“Sir, this IS the XL size”
They told me I had to go to another store for my sizes.
😭
“this is really painful”
“This won’t hurt a bit.”
I heard something similar to that right before I found out local anesthetic doesn’t work on me.
found the redhead!
There were two times in my life where I grew my hair out and had shoulder-length long hair and I’ve gotten some pretty nasty comments for it, both online and in-person.
I’ve had some pretty nasty insults thrown at me, like “pedophile”, “tr***y”, etc
Even when I posted a pic of myself on another account on r/ToastMe on Reddit (basically opposite of RoastMe), most of the comments were people openly shitting on my appearance and the mods turned a blind eye to it…
Just being told I was ugly. Objectively I’m fine (although, of course, it’s all relative) and it took a while to work out.
I’m not conventionally handsome, but I have been fortunate enough to have good looking girls be attracted to me when I was a younger man. It blew me away as I believed I was a troll, thanks to toxic fuckers who took it upon themselves to comment negatively on my appearance when I was a teen. I still vividly remember one day in class this spotty new guy went on a sustained and articulate tirade about how weird looking I was. I had to fight to hold back the tears. This was 30 years ago and I still wince at the memory of it.
I’d pretty much come to terms with how weird I looked, then I went to uni in the city I was staggered to find that girls liked me. And not just for being the funny guy or whatever - there were genuinely women that would come on to me in clubs. It freaked me out to be honest.
To this day I don’t know if I was some sort of ugly duckling or what. Or maybe my face was just wrong for my rural home town, whereas the city, with it’s wider gene pool seemed to like me.
I also don’t get why these pricks (all men) wanted to bring me down. Guess some people are just mean bastards.
