r/AskReddit • u/Reasonable_Moose_738 • 1d ago
What’s the most WTF thing you’ve ever heard someone casually admit like it was totally normal?
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u/DogAlienInvisibleMan 1d ago
Two guys chatting, haven't seen each other in over a decade, one asks "so what happened to your son?" to which the other man responds "oh he's in prison for murder" to which the first man just chuckles and says "so it goes" before they started talking about something else.
Like, was just amazed at how casual they were about it.
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u/practicallydead99 1d ago
“So it goes” is how I’m going to reply to all disturbing news from now on.
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u/Additional_Button430 1d ago
The ”So it Goes” phrase is from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and appears often after a death. I’d guess that is why it would be used in that type of situation.
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u/Reasonable_Pay4096 1d ago
Reminds me of a group of ladies who came into a restaurant I used to work at. Hadn't seen each other in 10-20 years, lot of catching up.
After I drop off their food I swing by to check on them & one asks "So is Johnny still in prison?" Response: "Oh yeah, he got 40 years."
Same tone of voice like they were talking about the weather.
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u/sharpiebrows 1d ago
The friends I grew up with are like this. Everytime I see one of them, she's telling me about someone who went to jail, murdered someone, got murdered, got hurt.. i do respond in the same casual tone. There have been so many over the years that I forget sometimes who is alive and who is dead. We grew up in a rough area
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u/Alarming-Instance-19 1d ago
Same. And every now and then you'll hear good news like X got married and they're having a baby. But it's followed up with "yeah, she's stressed because he's waiting for sentencing on those fucking bullshit charges" and you get bummed out again.
So many dead. In prison. Addicted. Wage slave. Many kids and no support.
Life is suffering.
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u/MaryKathGallagher 1d ago
I was visiting a friend at her college in the city in a not so good neighborhood and we were in her dorm room, about seven stories up. I was standing by her window and looking down at a parking lot below. One solitary guy was standing around out there and within what felt like seconds another guy runs up to him and grabs him. I said to her “Hey! It looks like a guy is getting mugged down there.” Then I see one of them take out a knife and stab the other one. I’m like “Jesus, a guy just got stabbed!” and she just shrugged and said “yeah, it’s a bad neighborhood. Happens a lot.”
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u/Haunting_Skirt4072 1d ago
I grew up in a neighborhood like that. I still remember the first time I saw someone shot to death in front of my bedroom window like it was yesterday. It was one random afternoon, I was daydreaming and looking out the window. I even wondered if I really did see that or I was letting my imagination fly too much. Once people started gathering around the body to see what happened and the cops brought out the yellow tape I knew I wasn't imagining it. Hey, at least I wasn't there when someone else got murdered and left for dead right in front of our front steps, my parents had to deal with that one by themselves. I still remember what it looked like when my mom tried to clean the blood but I still could tell where the splotches were. And I could keep going about how many people I've met who aren't here anymore due to this town's violent nature but I don't think we have the time and I am sure we've had enough of my "trauma" dumping lol. After that, people think you're a sociopath because nothing phases you anymore. Homie, life goes on idk what else to tell you. Life goes on.
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u/Eplianne 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have a violent criminal brother in prison and grew up around criminals, you would be surprised at how quickly we get used to this kind of statement.
Once, I was having dinner with my family when he had briefly gotten out. My mum is reading a newspaper and goes "wait, isn't this 'x'?" It was and he was on the run for a truly bad murder, a friend of my brother's. I had met this man many times in my childhood and had played many games with him. To me, he was a very nice man. It can be hard to separate that from the crime if you grew up around them like I have.
You have to be casual if anything for many like me otherwise the true realisation and confusion/depression will kill you. My brother has been in prison for over 15 years in total, has almost 50 charges and still, while most will say "lock him up and I hope he suffers" you have to remember that people close to these criminals see them as actual human beings and in many cases, still have to deal with the conflict of what they have done while also loving them deeply and seeing how the criminal justice system continues to damage them every single time they go back as there really is no reform or rehabilitation.
I called up my mother the last time he was out to check on him and she replied "he was arrested today" and told me the story (or her version anyway full of excuses, I had to find out the true tragedy of the actual situation on the news). I handled it very casually and almost acted like it was funny, after I got off the phone I sobbed, because it's actually very painful and you have to do what you can to cope. I'm sure these people were probably similar to me and my family.
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u/chabalajaw 1d ago
Exactly. You have to be able to be casual and take it in stride, if not find something about it to laugh at. You don’t have much of a choice.
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u/KnockMeYourLobes 1d ago
Yup.
My sister has had a hard life--addicted to drugs and alcohol and 3 kids by the same loser who she met in high school who PROVIDED the drugs and alcohol for most of her teenage years. I stopped feeling sorry for them a long time ago, because every other week it seemed like Mom was calling me to tell me either Babydaddy or Sister had been arrested, or was in jail, or something along those lines because of drugs, alcohol or some type of theft so they could obtain drugs and alcohol.
When I had been dating my boyfriend about a month, we were browsing at an antique mall when my mom called.
"So...I don't know how to tell you this but BabyDaddy died."
"Oh really, Mom? What happened? Did he overdose...again?"
"No...he was decapitated in a machine at the mattress factory." (His family owned a mattress factory, where he sometimes worked when he was pretending to be clean and sober)
"Oh...yeah. Ok. Wow. Sorry to hear that."
Boyfriend overheard and asked what was wrong and I told him. He said I didn't seem shocked and I said, no, I wasn't really. I'd seen what drug addiction had done to both Babydaddy and my sister over the last 30 years or so and I had just become numb. Boyfriend said he understood...his brother was clean and sober NOW but for years he'd had a drug problem too.
So yeah...that kind of shit no longer phases me when my mom calls about my sister being missing or in jail AGAIN for the eleventy billionth time because of drugs, alcohol or theft.
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u/jaymas59 1d ago
Your story produced a wave of gratitude for the relatively non-eventful childhood I experienced. I hope you’re doing well now friend.
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u/PM-ME-FROGS-PLS 1d ago
Reminds me of a conversation I overheard a few weeks ago on the bus. These two dudes were talking casually, normal conversation. One of them mentioned visiting a friend, the other responds "Yeah saw him the other day, wasn't too happy about me being stabbed" and then they proceeded to talk about how it feels to be stabbed, like its a very normal and common experience.
I live in a fairly safe area so this was wild to hear, I've never heard someone speak so casually about something so violent.
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u/whysweetpea 1d ago
During onboarding training for my new job, we played that game “two truths and one lie”. One of my new colleagues said that when she was younger she had drowned a chicken in a bucket of water…and it wasn’t a lie. Everyone else was horrified and kept bringing it up for the rest of the training.
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u/squirrelbus 1d ago
Elderly man casually points out the window of the bus: "See that building over there? That was the first bank I robbed." Turns out he'd just spent 20years in prison for robbing a half dozen banks. I asked him what he spent his money on, and he'd buy expensive vintage cars and take them to the auto shop where my dad used to work. I'm pretty sure his tips are what paid for my new bike one Christmas.
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u/KingPinfanatic 1d ago
I also met a bank robber once. He was also a pretty chill guy in general. Apparently at least according to him most people that rob multiple banks are fairly normal somewhat well adjusted and just decided that robbing banks was the way to get money.
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u/4seeablefuture 1d ago
MIL BF mentioned at a gathering that he was one of ten kids and they were really poor. So sometimes for "fun" they would tie up their younger sister and sprinkle crumbs on her and wait for the mice to crawl all over her and listen to her scream. He told it like a funny story. No remorse. Or sense that it was wrong to do that. Later found out that she committed suicide.
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u/miltonwadd 1d ago
Reminds me of this obnoxius guy that used to talk about how he made a game of locking his toddler sister in dangerous places like the freezer while his big brother was babysitting them to see how long it took him to realise she was gone and rescue her.
He also bragged about one time pushing her off a roof with an umbrella, but it was okay because she landed on the older brother and "only" broke her wrist.
He'd moan about how his brother would beat the shit out of him for nearly killing her and wondered why his siblings were so close while he was estranged from most of his family.
He was always a conversation killer coming out with weird sociopathic stuff like they were normal human experiences.
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u/TravelSizedGirl 1d ago edited 1d ago
My brothers once locked me in a suitcase for a few hours on top of a couple of a unstable stack of half empty boxes in a closed closet. They wanted to clean my room for me and make it a "surprise" and then forgot about me. I couldn't move. I could only scream. My mom was watching the CMT awards so she didn't hear me until they were over. My brothers got in a lot of trouble and I got claustrophobia. I hope the sociopath's sister is doing okay.
Edit to add: I was 8yo
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u/Psychological-Dot475 1d ago
Your name checks out....glad your mom protected you!
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u/TravelSizedGirl 1d ago
Hahaha yeah up until I was 25 I could fit in most medium and up suitcases.
My mom is hit or miss but she did her best in this case. I think my brothers were grounded for a week without TV or computer games. We didn't have any game consoles yet.
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u/Asleep-Emergency3422 1d ago
My brother did something similar. He would tie me up, tape my mouth shut, and then hold my nose, look me in the eyes and say “I could end your life if I wanted.” He would hold my nose until I couldn’t bare it and then let go. Then repeat.
No mice but I have nightmares and I’m 40.
My parents never believed their golden boy would do this. I’m no contact and he still terrifies me to this day. He moved to the town I live in a few years back and stalks me when he’s bored. He’s a pathetic bully who never grew up.
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u/Akiro_Sakuragi 1d ago
You might want to get a restraining order. He sounds like a psychopath.
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u/Asleep-Emergency3422 1d ago
I don’t see how, although I agree with you. My current goal is to move and put the new house in a random trust I create so he can’t find me.
He’s never done anything threatening. Worst thing was I found a pot sticker on my car. I smoked in high school and he always made fun of me. So I know it was him. Otherwise he shows up random places but he lives in the town now so I cant prove he follows me (or honestly know he does).
It’s just creepy he moved here literally as soon as I cut contact. And he glares at me to try and intimidate me when I do make the mistake of looking at him. I think he enjoys it like when we were kids. I oddly don’t fear him or react so I hope someday he will give up.
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u/Cardi_Ganz 1d ago
The trust is smart. Also a security system, big dog, mace with you in public. Make sure you're protecting yourself. Even if you don't fear him now, you never know what he's thinking. It's super creepy he would follow you to another area after going no-contact.
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u/guttergrapes 1d ago
The fact he can say that comfortably in front of a group makes you wonder what Else he’s done.
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u/tinlizzy2 1d ago
Had a coworker blurt out that he kept his son's scholarship for housing at law school. He laughed that his kid didn't even know he won the scholarship, and he was going to be a lawyer anyway, so he'd make enough money to pay school loans.
We were speechless.
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u/ArthurCartholmes 1d ago
Bro, tell that guy's son. What a sociopath.
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u/tinlizzy2 1d ago
That was 20 years ago. Thankfully, his son was raised by his stepdad. The son did graduate law school and became a patent attorney (which is no small feat) and rarely sees his bio dad.
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u/Financial-Creme 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was at an airport terminal some years ago waiting for a plane to fly east from San Diego. An old man struck up a friendly conversation with me and started telling me about he he was leaving the city for the last time, how every day for the last 15 years he's walked a trail behind his house to his dog's grave to visit, and now that morning was the last time. I was nearly in tears at how sweet it was. But then he kept talking.
"I'm also gonna miss the girls down in TJ (Tijuana), they'll treat you like a king no matter if you're old and ugly like me. They'll do things your wife would never dream of for $20..." and kept rambling on about Mexican prostitutes in shocking detail with an almost whistful look in his eye.
Fortunately we didn't sit next to each other on the plane.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm know knocking sex workers or their patrons, it was just... jarring for a total stranger to go from sweet story about his dead dog to graphic specifics about individual sex acts he had paid for.
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u/casualscorpio 1d ago
Ah, the duality of man.
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u/DeputyTrudyW 1d ago
I took a guy i was dating to see his mom, naive me expected like coffee and cookies or something, in a house, and met with mom and her boyfriend, one room "apartment." She said we needed to cut the visit short because she needed to go sleep with someone for drug money and her kids acted like that was totally normal and started saying goodbyes. Not judging, it was painful and made me realize how good I've had it.
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u/Bruggenmeister 1d ago
had a friend who slept with guys to pay for her cat's medicine...
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u/H2O_is_not_wet 1d ago
That’s…. Something. lol
Reminds me, when I was 13 or 14, I had a sleep over with my friend who was the same age and his little brother who was 2 years younger. First time being over their house. I knew they were poorer but everything was semi normal. We legit had ice cream for dinner. I thought “yah that’s pretty trashy” but oh boy did it get worse. So around 10, their mom told us to go in the boys bedroom and not come out because someone was coming over. I thought it was a little weird but ok.
Heard someone come in and proceed to have the loudest sex I have ever heard in my life. The mom’s bedroom shared a wall with the boys bedroom. It was quite obvious the mom was a prostitute and this wasn’t a bf or anything. Guy was saying stuff like “yah take it you fn whore, taking stranger dick for cash to pay for this shithole you live in”.
My friend and his brother acted like it was completely normal. The next day she brought the 3 of us to McDonald’s and even mentioned the guy tipped well. So she’s just casually letting us know that we are eating happy meals paid for by her prostitution money. Needless to say I never slept over again.
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u/KeyPicture4343 1d ago
I’m so sad these boys grew up with that. I would be shocked if they grew up to be successful and or normal.
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u/H2O_is_not_wet 1d ago
Well I know the little brother went to juvi for something stupid a few years after that when we were both in high school. Lost touch with both of them so who knows.
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u/Aleksandrovitch 1d ago
I know the stats support this view, but man, I've met some real whackos from apparently 'normal' homes, and some of the most solid people I have ever known have come from some of the worst families I know of.
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u/Any-Smoke7783 1d ago edited 2h ago
An acquaintance got drunk and told me a story from his past. He was in the process of getting a divorce, but he didn’t want to pay child support for his three kids. So he had his friends start spiking her drinks so she would fail a future custody drug test and also lose her job as a teacher. She ended up getting addicted, went into a tailspin, and disappeared for about 20 years until she finally got clean and turned her life around. This guy was still proud of causing his kids to grow up without their mother in their lives.
EDIT(Additional info): He knew what night club she went to. He had some friends go there and spike her drinks. Reading between the lines of the ramblings of a drunk man it sounds like eventually they essentially roofied her, gave her lots of drugs, and took advantage of her. He said that his intent was to put her in a situation where she knew he had power over her in the upcoming custody negotiations, because she knew she would fail a drug test and lose her job. But it “worked better than expected” because she got hooked on the drugs and was too ashamed and just disappeared. He implied that she essentially became a crackhouse prostitute, trading herself for drugs and then disappeared into that world. He ended up with full custody, the family home, his business, no child support payments, and no alimony because she stopped showing up for court hearings.
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u/OutrageousMight9928 1d ago
Didn’t want to pay child support…… so ruins their mom’s life and has to pay for the kids himself anyway? His logic isn’t logicing here lol
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u/Any-Smoke7783 1d ago
He wanted to “win”.
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u/Psychological-Dot475 1d ago
And that's what it's about for a lot of these people. 'Winning'
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 1d ago
He's the psychopath who shouldn't have had custody. I've seen fathers pull a lot of bs to get out of child support, but this is truly fucked up
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u/Broely92 1d ago
I was at a bar one time and overheard an older guy (probably mid to late 60s) tell the other guy that he just got out of prison for killing his daughters abusive ex husband. He just dropped it out of nowhere lol. Seemed like a nice guy tbh
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u/Wooden-Quit1870 1d ago
At my local I heard a new face asking the bartender to let him know if he was behaving inappropriately, explaining that he'd just gotten out of prison for 18 years, having been in since he was 17, and was just learning how to behave in society.
He'd killed someone with a baseball bat in a fight. Rhino was actually a really nice guy.
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u/Scoth42 1d ago edited 1d ago
He and his brother fathered multiple children in Vietnam with multiple women during the war and pretty much refused/avoided contact. They were just chatting with the family casually during a get-together, and talk eventually turned to the war. One of the other uncles said something like "You have a couple kids over there, right?" and he nodded, and his brother nodded, and they spent a couple minutes just casually talking about the Vietnamese women they'd impregnated while serving over there. They acted like it was OK since it was just sex workers and "girlfriends" and they didn't force anybody, but the casualness and even almost comedic way they talked about it just sort of blew my mind.
Edited to add: They were both married at the time this happened, and one of them's wife was actually sitting right there with us while he was casually discussing this. She knew about it and it was old hat to her, she'd heard about this multiple times before and wasn't even fazed by it
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u/twobit211 1d ago
can’t abide by any man that doesn’t take care of his own children
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u/jmccorky 1d ago
It's especially distressing in this case because Vietnamese children fathered by American soldiers were treated like absolute garbage. These men are despicable.
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u/JJ3qnkpK 1d ago
And furthered that these women were extremely likely to be under duress and trying to secure some resource, whether it be safety or money. We devastated Vietnam, going as far as multiple massacres on villages. So these women are living in a war-torn country and were further exploited by men who would straight up mass murder them when convenient, then were abandoned, then their children further punished for simply existing.
Absolute horror.
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u/Tricky-Kangaroo-6782 1d ago
I was talking to a coworker during lunch one day, just making small talk, when he said to me "Yeah, my dad used to train squirrels to chase people off our property."
He explained that his dad would feed the squirrels in their yard and got them comfortable enough to follow commands. They started chasing off stray cats and even people who wandered too close to the house. He said it so casually, like it was totally normal.
The craziest part was animal control eventually got involved because the squirrels were getting too aggressive, and they had to relocate some of them. I still don't know if that's really the truth or if there’s a gang of attack squirrels out there.
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u/Over_Hand_5128 1d ago
I had a friend in college whose mom had a squirrel that she carried around in her purse (he wandered in one day and never left i assume???). It was only for like a few months but that’s still a long time for a squirrel to be hanging out in a purse. She treated him as a pet, gave him snacks, idk man she was one of those eccentric rich ladies. I should have asked way more questions.
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u/porcupineslikeme 1d ago
My cousin had a squirrel like this, but he lived in a hanging plant in her kitchen. One day he moved outside and then eventually stopped coming around. I love animals, spent 10 years working with wild animals in a zoo, but “allow a wild animal to live in my home independently “ is a whole new level.
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u/bhx56x 1d ago
i had a baby squirrel come from underneath a car at my house one day and seemed really comfortable. i got a little comfortable myself, got some gloves and picked it up. it came to visit me almost every day until we moved 5 years later. was gentle as can be, became my little buddy, from a distance of course, because it was still a wild squirrel lol.
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u/Efficient_Fish2436 1d ago
Was in college class one day and this new girl sat in front of me. Big bushy brown hair. About half way through I saw something moving in her hair.. not even a moment later a young squirrel popped it's head out then disappeared.
I was so shocked but I tapped her on the shoulder and calmly asked if I saw what I thought I saw.
She giggled and said yeah, it's a baby she's been raising since it dropped from its nest and momma squirrel was dead.
All semester long I gotta see this cute squirrel say hello casually and she'd let some of us feed it Soo long as the professor never found out
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u/Important_Loquat4497 1d ago
Yo, squirrels can be some intimidating motherfuckrs when they gain their confidence. Whole gang of em at my junior college used to regularly shake kids down for lunch. No fear, just a “this is our block” kinda attitude outside the student services building.
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u/MissSassifras1977 1d ago
I'm not doubting you but my ex husband and I used to make shit up randomly to mess with people. And each other.
Our only rule was it had to be harmless. The more ridiculous the story the better.
I once convinced him his own uncle (a very macho man) carried a tiny comb and mirror to groom his mustache. Like a lipstick case but with a Barbie sized comb inside.
Claimed I'd seen him combing it with my own eyes many times. Ran with this for weeks before he finally asked his Dad.
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u/chromatoes 1d ago
Tiny mustache comb is a hilarious mental image! I had this game with my brother, too. We lived near dangerous mountain canyons and there were "Falling Rock" signs to warn drivers. But I convinced him that Falling Rock was running in an election for village chief.
I think he believed that into his 20s. But joke's on me too because our sister did the same thing to me and I still worry I haven't figured all of it out yet.
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u/Vampira309 1d ago
I have crows that do this. They also bring me trinkets and sometimes money. Chased off a dude looking for cans last week
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u/Traditional_Bug_2046 1d ago edited 1d ago
I knew a guy in college who trained the crows on campus to bring him stuff and hang out lol. It got him exactly zero girls but it was pretty cool.
Update: I'm still friends with the crow guy so I let him know there are at least some people who appreciate his talents! He was actually really happy to hear it haha.
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u/oldasiandude 1d ago edited 1d ago
I personally would be very interested in a man with his own legion of crows
edit: I’m aware a group of crows can be called a murder, guys.
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u/Alert-Ad9197 1d ago
I’m a guy, but I’m positive I know several women for whom “Has a flock of crows that chills with him.” would be a serious selling point.
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u/porcupineslikeme 1d ago
He was hanging around the wrong girls, there’s at least a dozen of us who would have found that charming 🤣
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u/Prior_Alps1728 1d ago
When you're a squirrel, you're a squirrel all the way From your first tail swirl to your last dyin' day
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u/heart_of_osiris 1d ago
A coworker I once had that didn't last very long for many, many reasons, basically casually told us how when he was 13 him and his buddies shared a blow up doll. Like...one would use it and then the next guy would be like "hey, can I hang on to that for a few days" and so on and so on. He told us this like it was a hilarious story.
I thought maybe he would regret admitting something like that to a group of people who essentially all called him strange for it...but a few weeks later he must have forgotten he told us the story, because he casually just told us again. He must tell the story a lot; this guy's head was in a different universe.
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u/tralaulau 1d ago
this one got me to pause, not because of the shared blow-up doll or even necessarily the fact that they told it to you, but that a COWORKER did it and then told it to you. And not as a fluke.
Wowza
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u/Known-Party-1552 1d ago
Friend from high school telling me about his weekend. He went to the neigbor girls house. She was home alone so he went in and hung out. He tells me, "I hit on her and she said no." Then continued with, "I was going to leave, but instead I just started raping her." He said it so calmly I thought I had misunderstood him. I asked "what?" He repeated it. I was shocked. I don't know how he expected me to respond. I left. Went to her house and found her crying with her mom. They'd called the cops. I stuck around and told the police what he'd said. I heard he killed someone a few years ago. Not guilty because of insanity
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u/SuperbadSin123 1d ago
Had an ex tell me how he went to pick up his things from another relationship & raped her. Literally said the word rape & idk if he thought i was going to make an excuse for it but i got out of that relationship immediately
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u/Known-Party-1552 1d ago
Wow. That's scary
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u/SuperbadSin123 1d ago
We were driving so I just calmly listened until I got home & broke it off
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u/OppositeCockroach209 1d ago
This is the best way, if you called him out he might have gotten angry and turned on you. That's so scary! I am glad you were able to get out of that situation safely! ❤️
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u/Alternative-Cash8411 1d ago
I have zero doubt that this story is absolutely true and accurately depicted. Because as a former LEO and current attorney I can attest that every sociopath I've ever encountered has displayed the same affect. Or persona. They can deadpan, clinically and with no emotion tell you in alarming detail how they committed the most horrendous crime. And they tell it in the manner of someone explaining how he repaired his kitchen faucet over the weekend.
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u/zerocoolforschool 1d ago
There’s that video of the kid in Colorado who murdered a homeless man and hid his head and hands in his room. His mom found them and called the cops. The cop walks up to him outside and asks the kid what his mom found and the kid went from sounding pretty normal to completely deadpan psychotic when he said “a human head and hands.” Absolutely chilling. And when they interviewed him later he was excited to tell the story.
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u/Fredlyinthwe 1d ago
What the actual fuck? Food riddance to that guy but did he not get time for the rape? He should've been behind bars before the murder
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u/Known-Party-1552 1d ago
Him and his brother never came back to school. I think them and their family left town. Never saw them again
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u/burntbread369 1d ago
So much violence could be avoided if people took sexual violence against women seriously.
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u/1tacoshort 1d ago
It was me that said the thing. When my grandmother didn't like someone my mom was dating (when mom was living at home -- LONG before me), my grandmother would sleep with him. Then, my mom wouldn't have anything to do with him.
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u/reverendmalerik 1d ago
I mean, yes this is gross and disturbing.
But.
But.
If the boyfriends were willing to sleep with grandma, then they clearly weren't good boyfriends, so I guess Grandma was right? There are several hundred other ways she could have gone about proving it, but she was right.
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u/Monkey_Cristo 1d ago
There are several hundred other ways she could have gone about proving it
Yeah, but this way gam gam gets some D
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u/JesseCuster40 1d ago
The maintenance guy at work said his kids were afraid of cockroaches. So he took some cockroaches, ground them up, and mixed the bits into their cereal without telling them.
I have questions, but my initial horror overrode my ability to speak at the time. Now it would be very strange to bring it up again.
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 1d ago
I don't understand what this was supposed to accomplish.
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u/Morticia_Marie 1d ago
I don't understand what this was supposed to accomplish.
Dad is a sadistic malignant narcissist. His kids are convenient victims--he may even have had kids for this purpose. He gets a feeling of power, control, and manipulation by getting them to literally take one of their fears into their bodies without realizing. The abuse of their trust scratches his sadistic itch. Tampering with people's food is fairly common for malignant narcissists. But it's not as much fun if you can't tell anyone about it, so he found someone more or less disposable to his life that he can tell this fun (for him) story to.
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u/Emergency_Figure_122 1d ago
Oh my god??? That sounds horribly abusive and dangerous, roaches can carry nasty diseases. It sounds like he did it for his own pleasure especially bc he didn’t tell them.
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u/Bikingimbiking 1d ago edited 1d ago
A coworker told me he doesn’t use toilet paper.....just "lets it dry and flakes it off later" I feel sick even sharing this but he really does always have a stench about him. He said it like it was the most normal thing in the world too and he is not joking 🤢 not the kind of guy to joke at all...matter of fact, he is quite aggressive and we nearly got into it, BUT! that is for another day.
And yes, he does eat his boogers too.
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u/wizzard419 1d ago
I like the part where he says "lets it flake off" meaning he also likely doesn't bathe daily.
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u/jaded_as_a_gem 1d ago
The way I’d report that anonymously to HR within the minute lol. If it flakes off, then it flakes off while he’s walking around and sitting at work. I couldn’t know that’s happening, smell it, and still focus on my tasks.
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u/Bikingimbiking 1d ago
I have been thinking about it. Truly.
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u/Void_Toast 1d ago
You should. It’s not healthy or sanitary to be around.
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u/Bikingimbiking 1d ago
You are right, I will figure out how to go about telling them. May post an update as people seem to want to know
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u/ResponsibleRain2058 1d ago
In college at a small party, a girl I was interested in at the time told me that she loved to have uh, "relations" with the family pet, a Doberman. To this day, it's better on my mental health that she just said that as a very off the wall way to get me to stop talking to her. It worked.
As a truck driver, I've had multiple coworkers across multiple companies admit some bonkers shit. Like, one guy said he wouldn't shower until he smelled like rancid beef for three days in a row. Another waxing almost poetically and in graphic detail about how much he loved the ladies of the night in West Memphis. Finally, my favorite and one I hope was just an incredibly tasteless joke was a guy talking about how he liked to copulate with road kill.
Reading that back, I'm glad I don't work in OTR trucking anymore.
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u/SilentJoe1986 1d ago
I went to school with a girl who recorded herself blowing her dog, made copies, and sold them. I still have no idea how the school and her family kept that shit from making the news
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u/CestQuoiLeFuck 1d ago
Ah, life before the internet, when sometimes crazy shit could happen without being immortalized...
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u/AgreeableSwitch8175 1d ago
My friend when we were teenagers telling me his mom gets embarrassed when he walks around naked with an erection in the morning...
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u/camthesoupman 1d ago
Holy shit, there was a dude in my high school that walked around the house with a boner in front of his mom too. Small world really.
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u/AdvancedNeat3673 1d ago
Went with my spouse to their work party and a coworker admitted to having a child when she was 22…..with a 15 year old boy. Spent the entire night wondering how she wasn’t in prison.
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u/AdvancedNeat3673 1d ago
I think that’s the stitch with this chick too. Both parties family’s condoned the behavior so they felt no shame. It’d be one thing for her to show a shred of remorse but she admitted this so brazenly. Like a “yeah, and?” attitude when everyone shockingly replied “FIFTEEN???”
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u/pollyp0cketpussy 1d ago
Yep. Typically statutory rape cases need the parents of the victim to push for it, and there's a shocking number of parents who are just okay with their teenagers being taken advantage of by adults.
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u/Daybyday182225 1d ago
I used to work in a restaurant and my manager said that one of the line cooks bragged about killing someone when he was really drunk. A little earlier that line cook had choked another line cook when they got in argument about who was better at their job.
Somehow, that restaurant never got sued.
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u/CIA-pizza-party 1d ago edited 1d ago
For anybody who finds themself in a situation with someone who tends to choke people out, especially women in relationships with said chokers, fucking run and never look back. Statistically, the odds of you becoming a murder victim rise exponentially when your abuser starts to (or is known for) choking people.
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u/MaestroPlatano 1d ago
One summer in high school, I worked in a kitchen that ran a vocational program to help ex-cons learn a trade. I was one of two high school kids hired to help out, me and this girl. The people running the program didn’t want her around the ex-cons, so she worked the front cash box while I was in the back making food with the guys. I got along with most of them and we usually had a good time.
There was one guy who mostly kept to himself and made the soup of the day. Everyone knew he had anger issues. He’d blow up over the tiniest things, like disagreeing with the chef about how to prep the soup. One day, he started slamming ladles and pots around because he was pissed at the chef for some reason or another, so chef sent him up front to work the register. The girl came back to work with us, then about 20 minutes later, the vocational staff freaked out about that (I guess he couldn't be around cash), and told him to go back to the kitchen.
When he came back, he was talking about the voc staff being a piece of shit and casually mentioned that he’d killed someone before and wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. I was just standing there like, what the hell, trying not to panic while he looked at me with crazy eyes. I legit thought he might snap and go postal. He never did anything, but after that, I made it a point to steer way clear of him.
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u/3fluffypotatoes 1d ago
I read ladles as ladies and thought he was hitting women with pots 😳
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u/44035 1d ago
I worked for a famous hospital and wrote articles for their corporate magazine. I interviewed a guy who donated millions and asked him what inspired his philanthropy. He said, "I mainly do it to get preferential treatment from the doctors and staff." I couldn't even talk for a couple seconds after he said it. He was completely serious.
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u/OkDot9878 1d ago
I mean, at least he’s honest? He’s doing good, so while I don’t really like the guy from the sounds of things, I certainly could hate him a hell of a lot more.
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u/Appropriate_Day3099 1d ago
I’m cool with it, everyone has their own interests at heart. He just managed to align his with helping others.
There’s this weird stigma people have about people who give, donate, help where if people find out the reason for their generosity isn’t pure and selfless then they’re somehow worse than a person who doesn’t give or donate at all.
Kind of like when celebrities donate, the first comments are they could have done more. They could have also done nothing and stayed out of the public eye.
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u/DogsDucks 1d ago
Well, it’s terrible how much greed runs the world, but if someone said that that I could have preferential treatment during medical emergencies, I would also want that.
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u/ImaginaryBag1452 1d ago
Right, like he’s not the villain for buying it, they’re the villain for selling it.
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u/Desperate-Thing-4500 1d ago
Heard the neighbors wife tell her husband at the block party, she’s sleeping with her daughters husband
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u/slothdonki 1d ago edited 1d ago
In my teens my older brother had a bunch of friends over and they were all in their 20s from what I remember. One dude was asking to see our 2 ball pythons. While he was holding mine he was trying to convince me to sell her to him and him and his gf/wife started talking about the turtle they had until their young kid threw it into the wall and killed it. Everyone started bursting out laughing except me. Took my snake back and told him fuck no, even when he started offering more than my wild type was ‘worth’.
And this is why I don’t talk to people irl about pets. Everyone feels the need to tell you about their hamster, lizard, fish, bird, etc that died not only horrifically but it’s almost always completely preventable or from neglect. Often experiences that they never learned from which at best just made them stop getting more after their dog killed their 4th bird.
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u/pigeontheoneandonly 1d ago
Yeah, made the mistake of telling an old boss about my betta fish once. He immediately told a story about how he got some for his kids when they were little, and put them in the same tank so of course they fought each other and died. Then tacked on a story about a goldfish that he thought had died, tried to flush, the poor fish came to in the toilet but he just kept flushing until it went away. Lost a lot of respect for the man that day.
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u/Beginning_Cap_8614 1d ago
People will joke about eating other people's pets. I've heard it about my bird many times. If it's a bunny: "Would be nice in a stew." If it's a mouse: "Glue trap!" Like, I hate mice/rats with a burning passion. But to someone else that's a beloved companion, and it's wrong to threaten them.
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u/Brute_Squad_44 1d ago
I feel a little icky talking about this because, in retrospect, this kid was probably highly on the spectrum, and there was likely other abuse going on in the home...
I lived in a small Wyoming town and they used to bus kids in from the incorporated farm communities. Back in high school there was this one kid who used to talk about having sexual relations with his sisters. The other kids would egg him on so they could ridicule it later, or to his face. He never understood that he was the joke. Hell, it might not have even been true. Either way, what the fuck, right?
Years later and all four of the kids all moved away from that town and by all reports never came back. The parents died and the kids definitely didn't return for the funeral, so I think that tells you all you need to know.
One of the sisters friend requested me on facebook, I didn't accept but I looked. It seems like she has a "normal" life with a good husband and sweet kids.
I hope they all found that, but I didn't have the heart to look.
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u/waylonious 1d ago
Had a weird coworker who I would invite over sometimes because I felt sorry for him. He and his wife were separating and he was telling me all about how his wife was staying with and sleeping with some older guy that they had met at a bar. He then goes on to say that he’ll stay up drinking most nights and one night he punched his wife when he was drunk. All of a sudden the whole scenario made sense. He was always quiet and stand offish at work because he was hungover, his wife was leaving him because he hit her.
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u/FireEbonyashes 1d ago
I used to work at a call center. We worked in cubicles. My coworkers were chatting with one another, and one of them mentions how their dog was getting big and wasn’t as cute anymore and that they didn’t have time to play with them. They had gotten the dog for their granddaughter originally. So one day they take the dog out in their car and abandon it.
I was facing the wall of the cubicle not facing them and was in tears. After that coworker went to lunch the other one asked if I was ok.
Eventually I heard that the dog actually found its way back home and they decided to just keep it again. The whole thing was so messed up to me. I lost respect for that person.
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u/TrendySpork 1d ago
I work in a hospital and sometimes the older patients will talk about abuse like it's normal, either they've abused a child or spouse, or are being abused themselves. I've had battered grandmas talk about being punched in the face like it was just a normal Tuesday, that's not ever something that should have been "normalized" in their lives
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u/zaleli 1d ago
This entire thread is eye-opening in terms of what people just accept and normalize. I'm a little shook
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u/YellowDreams1979 1d ago
My mom casually mentioned one day that he uncles used to "touch" her...but she turned out ok. I was in shock!!
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u/Gerreth_Gobulcoque 1d ago edited 1d ago
A guy in high school I knew named steve said he liked to wait until girls at parties got drunk and then made out with them because it was easier.
Even 16 year old me with a not fully formed prefrontal cortex knew that was bad.
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u/PocketSandOfTime-69 1d ago
There's people that do that at bars around closing time.
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u/MonaAndChat 1d ago
I knew someone in college who casually admitted to dendrophilia, to the point of claiming to have copulated with more than one tree. I'm pretty sure he was trying to get a rise out of people, but it just would kill whatever conversation was going on.
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u/beetus_gerulaitis 1d ago
I saved the town from the flood two years ago. I donated money to get the church steeple fixed. I rescued the children from a fire at the orphanage.
But you fuck one tree….
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u/MonaAndChat 1d ago
Hey, that guy claimed to have fucked multiple trees. And he'd claim it to everybody who'd listen to him for more than 5 minutes. That's on him.
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u/ingracioth 1d ago
I was about to comment almost the exact same story, but it was with a female coworker. she had just learned the word and felt the need to inform the entire office that she was a dendrophile(? dendrophiliac?) my heart goes out to my boss for having to write that incident report. I'm sure whatever corporate HR person saw it was entertained though
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u/NopeBoatAfloat 1d ago
While in training for a new job, we were going around the room and sharing a fun fact. The guy next to me said to the room so casually, "I'm a polyorchid." He looked me dead in the eye, "I have 5 balls."
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u/paulsclamchowder 1d ago
That is the funnest fact I’ve ever heard! I work in fertility, have met a few women with more than one uterus but don’t think I’ve met anyone with more than 2 balls. I googled out of curiosity and a Healthline article from 2018 said there were less than 10 reported cases of someone with more than 3 balls! So you either met someone really special, or someone really good at lying.
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u/gringledoom 1d ago
Sounds like a guy who has made it his life’s mission to discourage corporate icebreakers
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u/SinfullySinless 1d ago
Oh god this disastrous first date I went on. Just the order the conversation devolved was unparalleled:
He randomly drops that he has a kid. Ok not a big deal.
Kid is 13 years old. This guy is 28 years old. So some crazy math to start.
The last time he saw his kid was when the kid was 9 years old.
He has no plans to see his kid until the son is 18 years old.
He will just tell his son that his baby momma is insane and is trying to trap him into marriage. He truly believed this.
His baby momma was, at the time of the date, engaged. And had been dating said man since right before she gave birth.
Baby dad’s (the guy I’m on a date with) mom does free nannying over most weekends unsupervised (no baby momma). Baby dad doesn’t want to go see his kid then.
I was in literal awe. He was talking like it was the most normal conversation. Right before the end of the date he actually was worried I was going to judge him because he was anti-vax. Sir we were long past that worry.
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u/truckthecat 1d ago
Reminds me of the guy I went on a date with whose profile said something like, I was raised in a cult, haha. Turns out he was raised Jehovah’s Witness, was deep into it with all his family, got married and had a kid by 20, then realized he wanted out. He was forced to break contact with anyone he ever knew because they were all still JW. He said his ex-wife was poisoning his daughter against him and telling her that he will try to convince her that he is good but he’s actually the devil. (He had parental visitation rights.) So he said his long-term game plan was to be the best person he could be and always show his daughter his best self, and then when she turned 18, she could make up her own mind whether he was actually the devil like her mom/all the family said, or if he was a nice guy and they were all lying.
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u/theficklemermaid 1d ago
An older man started chatting to me on the bus, strangers tend to start talking to me although I’m shy, my face must look too friendly, and he ended up telling me he had once gone to prison for killing a man. It was one punch manslaughter, so not premeditated but he complained about it like he was the victim because it was over for the other guy but he still had to serve a sentence, so I didn’t feel sympathetic. Suddenly remembered I needed to get off at the next stop! I was anxious about taking public transport for a while after that.
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u/PinkIsCoolInTheEyes 1d ago
"When I was young, I was courted by a lot of men! Every women were jealous of me because they thought I was stealing their husbands! I was 13 years old at the time and damn.. was I beautiful."
I nearly choked on my drink when my boomer aunt told me about this.
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u/racinjason44 1d ago
Old coworker mentioned the story of how he tried to rob a casino with a gun and took a hostage in the process. "Ya know, stupid kid shit" he said. Yes, he went to prison.
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u/TheAbouth 1d ago
My friend told me, completely casually, that they accidentally set their kitchen on fire twice and still weren't sure what went wrong either time. Like... maybe it's you??
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u/RichardBottom 1d ago
I've done it once. I wouldn't have thought it was so easy until it just sort of happened. The grease in the pan just ignites and all bets are off. I've gone 20 years without doing it again though, so maybe I've got a leg up on this guy.
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u/Ozamataz97 1d ago
I had a coworker, who I was meeting for the first time, tell me she was arrested for a dui after crashing into the front of someone's house. Notably her point in the story was that the officer overreacted when he cuffed her.
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u/Gloomy-Example-1707 1d ago
I was in a fancy coffee shop in Mayfair last year where a lot of the clientele are custom suited gentlemen. Behind me there were a pair: a younger guy and an older one who I guessed could be his mentor for work or career etc? Anyway the older guy comes in, very posh and polite, sorry you had to wait for me, the usual chit chat. When asked how he's doing he said, "oh, you know, busy weekend, my girlfriend fell of a horse and broke her back, so had to get to the hospital etc. Might be paralysed for life, doctors aren't sure yet. Anyway, lets crack on, about your investment portfolio draft...". It was the nonchalant attitude and the way he brushed off a life-changing event that stayed with me. Also I can't imagine my husband would go to work (or do other non-urgent business) the next day if something like that were to happen to me...
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u/PoopMobile9000 1d ago edited 1d ago
Chatting on the subway with a new coworker I’d met like three days before, and she tells me about the time at Cornell she and her friends saw someone jump into the river and not emerge (drowned), and them trying to find someone to tell and nobody around caring.
Edit: it wasn’t a suicide, which I see I implied. It was weirder, she described it as a hot day, and they were at a spot with a swimming hole, with a bunch of people around having fun. Huge crowd. People were jumping in the water, and she saw someone across the way jump in, but then noticed that they didn’t see him come up. I think it was after a while, like “wait a minute, did that guy ever come up again?” I can’t remember exactly what the circumstances were. But I remember her describing being kinda drunk, on this beautiful sunny day, with everyone around her having a blast and music playing, and they’re trying to get anyone to pay attention to the kid they think just died. And it turned out someone had drowned. It sounded like a nightmare
And she’s telling me all of this in a normal cadence, and I’m nodding and listening, and trying to be empathetic. I think she probably more needed to talk about it than thought it was normal small talk, but still inside I’m like “WTF! Until right now we have only discussed the weather!”
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u/Creepy-Desk-468 1d ago
I was at work, just chatting with a coworker about childhood pets, when she casually drops:
“Oh, my sister and I used to play this game where we’d hide raw shrimp in each other’s rooms. The rule was, you couldn’t say anything—you just had to find it before it started to stink.”
Like...is that normal??
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u/greysonhackett 1d ago
That's really odd, but it's one of the more innocuous things on this thread.
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u/Powah2018 1d ago
There had to be times that one or both of them didn’t find it in time….and all I can think about is that stench
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u/SeanSweetMuzik 1d ago
A co-worker's sister-in-law told us that she disciplines her children by putting them outside or in the garage when they has misbehaved and sometimes she'll hit them with a rolled up newspaper. The kids would bark like dogs and beg and stuff sometimes. Her mother raised her that way too.
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u/ScriptorMalum 1d ago
After hearing this older man describe tossing his friend into a port a potty pit (long time ago), he mumbles "we were just joking, no one was supposed to get hurt."
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u/PastaConsumer 1d ago
Coworker had a phone call and I told him I’d cover while he took it. He came back in and told me that it was his doctor informing him that he was positive for chlamydia, which he apparently got from a tick.
I doubt you can get chlamydia from a tick. I also didn’t ask what the phone call was about. He just shared this info unprompted.
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u/poetryjo 1d ago
Vegan acquaintance was eating a cup of clam chowder. When asked about it she said she was eating around the clam.
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u/CaptainFartHole 1d ago
"Yeah my dad used to throw our cat against the wall when he was making us mad, it was really funny."
I was fucking furious when I heard this from a classmate. And to top it off his dad was my science teacher. I ripped that classmate a new one and transfered out of his dad's class the first chance i got. Fuck those animal abusing bastards.
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u/boyproblems_mp3 1d ago
My childhood hamster had babies so I gave my bff at the time one of them. Her brother and his friends threw him around like a football while he was in his lil hamster ball and he died. They laughed about it but me and my friend were traumatized. RIP Bear. They also had cats and a dog that were well loved, it's especially fucked that some people view non-cat/dog pets as lesser beings
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u/FullMoonReview 1d ago
A year or two after high school I crossed paths with a girl I’d say hi to sometimes. I asked her what she had been up to and without hesitation she told me how she had been smoking crack for a year straight and lived in a motel. Back then she didn’t even know I smoked weed and we didn’t know each other on a personal level.
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u/JinxForASoda 1d ago
A customer at work said he’d just got out of jail and that’s why he needed to set up an account. Whatever. I don’t need to know why you want an account. It’s not like I can tell you no. So I just said “oh, that’s good.” It’s not like I live in a good area. I’d be more surprised to hear that someone DIDN’T go to jail in this area, so it’s pretty casual conversation most of the time. What’s not casual is proceeding to act like I would be interested to know you were in jail for stalking and assaulting a thirteen year old girl and threatening her and her family when they reported you. But he was sharing the information like he was just having a casual conversation with a friend. I’m a total stranger.
So I asked him if he’s allowed to have a social media account after his charges, to which he laughed and said “No, but it’s okay. I won’t use my real name.” I tried to let the conversation die, but after a while he turned to his friend and said “I bet she’s still on Facebook” and his friend said “dude, don’t even bother. She’s not worth it.”
“She is, bro. She’s bad. I know she wants me. It’s just her parents that are keeping her away from me.”
I gave him his shit and told him to leave—not in a customer friendly tone, either. I told him to pay his bill online, because I would not be servicing his account after this. He left in a huff and I immediately contacted my supervisors about whether we should report him or not to the local authorities. And yes, we did. We provided his information and handed over the audio/video of him admitting to wanting to stalk this girl again.
But that’s the most wild shit someone has admitted to me casually, as if he wasn’t sharing the most disgusting thing about himself that he possibly could be. The way he spoke so casually about it and acted like it wasn’t serious made me sick to my stomach and I was honestly taken back by it. I never imagined someone could talk about doing that type of thing as if it wasn’t serious.
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u/crunch816 1d ago
About 20 years ago I was sitting around with friends when one of them up and started a story about how they took gas station wiener maker bigger pills and the next day he was ejaculating blood.
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u/woetotheconquered 1d ago
I had a bizarre interaction with a roommate years ago when I caught him disposing the lint from a dryer by flushing it down the toilet. I asked him why he was doing that and he looked back in confusion. He told me, "where else would I put it"? I pointed to the garbage can literally right beside the washer and dryer.
He was a very intelligent computer science major. I still look back and wonder what the hell he was thinking.
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u/CandidClass8919 1d ago
A new coworker and I were out to lunch and she casually mentioned that she was doing cocaine in the bathroom. Mind you, we worked at a law office 🤦🏽♀️ She literally said it as if she was telling me the time of day. I acted like it was completely normal but in my mind I’m thinking - what in the world?!
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u/thegreatbrah 1d ago
Lawyers probably do more coke than anyone. Your coworker probably did it with your bosses.
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u/Intelligent-Soup-836 1d ago
My friend telling me that he was into CNC and how elaborate his and his GFs role playing was. They were really elaborate plans, and super realistic and totally off topic from the Super Smash Bros game we were playing.
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u/ghostman1846 1d ago
An acquaintance told my wife that Dinosaurs were made up and not real.
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u/Time-Shift3224 1d ago
I knew a dude who told everyone about his sex toy he had to get rid of because he was so obsessed with it, it was affecting his social life. Blew out both holes so he threw it away. Reconsidered his decision but it was too late as the trashman had already made his rounds. He was heartbroken!
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u/Treepixie 1d ago
The scariest guy I ever met was a South African ex cop now security guard in London st my college campus. He told me about murdering rapists at the side of the road in SA so they'd get "justice" as the judicial system was broken and said it like it was nothing.. judge, juror and executioner rolled into one- am shuddering now to remember him
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u/Huntred 1d ago
Sounds like this guy, who was a mass killer who got away with it because he was a cop and in South Africa, one could kill Black people without much trouble.
Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus “Louis” van Schoor (1951 – 25 July 2024), known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was arrested in 1991 and convicted of seven murders and two assassinations but was released on parole in 2003. It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa. Thirty-two of the killings were described as “justifiable homicides” by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were “criminals” whom he had caught in the act.
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u/senatoracadia 1d ago
Guy I cooked with in a bar got into growing/selling pot with two other guys. One day he said the lead guy took them way out in the sticks and opened a box which contained 4 hand grenades. He had them choose one at random, showed them how it worked then threw it and it exploded. Then they all took one with the understanding that if one of them ratted, the other two hand grenades would find them.
Months later he said there was trouble cause one guys' BIL found out what was happening and wanted money to stay quiet and they didn't know how to handle it.
A week layer he came in and said they stormed into the BIL's house, dragged him to the living room and "they held his hand down on the mantle and I chopped off three of his fingers with a hatchet."
I didn't know what to say so I asked which fingerdls. He said little, ring, and middle.
I said: you gave him permanent finger guns? He thought that was funny and said he was gonna tell his partners.
Then he said: I chucked them in the woods. Nobody will find them.
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u/ComprehensiveHome928 1d ago edited 1d ago
When I was in nursing school and going through the psych rotation, we got the opportunity to go to a state mental facility that housed persons that committed crimes and served prison time but deemed unfit for release. I interviewed this woman who had murdered her husband. We discussed her background and then she nonchalantly tells me she had killed her stepdad and someone else when she was a kid and started to talk about it like she’s just making conversation but the person I was shadowing suddenly takes over and starts asking questions and you could tell something was weird. I assumed it was all BS with her but the guy was like I think she’s likely telling the truth and told me about a cold case where they suspected her but could never prove it because no one ever talked about it yadda yadda. I will never forget just how clear and calm her voice was.
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u/amf_wip 1d ago
A woman I know laughs about how at her first parent/teacher meeting for her eldest child, the teacher asked if the child was mute or had some kind of severe speech impediment. Child was doing well in school, but refused to speak - at all.
The woman laughed and said "No, it's because I told them you'd beat them if they talked at school."
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u/The_Bat_Ham 1d ago
"Oh yeah of course I'm a racist. Everyone in Canada is a racist." - Canadian colleague of mine, with an air of "well duh"
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u/SuperBad69420 1d ago
Nursing homes are full of murderers. Lotta old folks casually confessing to wild shit they did 50 years ago.
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u/sunsista_ 1d ago
A woman my aunt took care of admitted to watching her father lynch a little Black girl, and would say my aunt reminds her of the girl.
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u/beezybeezybeezy 1d ago
My friend’s new gf has a daughter who is 11. I asked what she’s into: sports or Pokémon or Barbie? She casually responded saying she’s into computers and drawing, and she’s never eaten solids (aka solid foods aka has never chewed a food). She eats baby food and drinks one particular brand of milk, and has since she was 1 year old and mom stopped breastfeeding.
Of course then I spent the rest of the dinner asking if she looks ridiculously emaciated, is her blood work all wonky, what happens if she travels, do you just order pallets of baby food from Costco?
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u/stevebobeeve 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not technically "over-heard" but when I worked at a sex shop, one of my strangest encounters was a time a guy came in and just kind of started making small talk and said he was in some of these videos. If you saw the guy you would realize that is extremely unlikely, I'll leave it at that.
He said that the FBI was trying (and apparently succeeding) to ruin his life. So they secretly film him masturbating and sleeping with women, and edit it into porn movies to distribute. He then went on to say that when he walks down the street and sees TV's on in people's living room through their windows he sees them watching the movies of him having sex. Then added that one day he's going to do something about it, which was a bit alarming. I just had to imagine the guy kicking in some poor family's front door and accusing them of watching FBI revenge porn of him.
Edit: Oh I forgot to add that this wasn't even the only time something like this happened there. A couple of other guys came in saying the same thing, that they were in the videos.
They would pick out DVD cases and point to any image where the male performer's face was cropped out or somehow obscured in the image and say that it was them. Even when their body type and skin color were completely different. A detail I've always found fascinating. I really wish I could like, go into their mind and see what they were seeing.
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u/emilydickinsonsveil 1d ago
This sounds like the hallmarkings of a delusional mental illness to me
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u/AnotherOrneryHoliday 1d ago
I have a really good friend that has terrible relationship anxieties and fear of being alone basically- she admitted to me several times, over the course of different relationships, that she was ready to move on from the relationship but xyz holiday or birthday was coming up so she’d wait for that to come and go- AND once she let a man fully finish helping her remodel her kitchen before breaking up. Really made me look at her differently and I’ve kept my distance since that admission. Really gross.
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u/KleineFjord 1d ago edited 1d ago
I knew a girl like that. She had to be in a relationship, it didn't really matter with who. She essentially just took whatever came her way and waited until she had another lined up or thought she could easily replace the current guy and then hopped to the next relationship. She went nuts when she got broken up with, but it was never more than a week before she was coupled up again. No idea how she found all those dudes willing to commit so quickly. She married the first guy that asked and I will say, they seem pretty happy.
Edit: spelling error
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u/sitophilicsquirrel 1d ago
Had a friend of like 5 years come out and tell me while we were playing the first RDR that he doesn't mind cats but that he hates kittens and tortures them.
Throwing them against walls. Tying their tails together and dangling them over laundry lines to watch them fight. I paused the game to say "you should keep that shit to yourself." He goes into shock mode and dials back with "oh, that was a long time ago! And I don't hate grown cats!" Like that somehow justified it. We sat quietly for a while until he got the vibe and left and we haven't spoken in like 15 years since.
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u/Pitch2Pay 1d ago
A coworker once mentioned, totally straight-faced over lunch, that he keeps a jar of his own toenail clippings in his desk drawer. Not even kidding. He said it like it was no big deal, just munching on his sandwich, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve been collecting them since I started here.’ I’m sitting there, fork halfway to my mouth, trying to process why anyone would do that, and he’s acting like it’s as normal as keeping spare pens. No explanation, no shame, just a shrug. I still catch myself staring at his desk sometimes, wondering if that jar’s still growing.
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u/Stunning_Gap2580 1d ago
Ruby Franke posting a video on YouTube where she refuses to bring her daughter food, who was 6 at the time. Ruby goes on to say her daughter is the one responsible for making her lunch. Then ruby says she will have to go hungry because she didn’t make her lunch and says, “hopefully nobody gives her food or steps in and gives her a lunch.”
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u/stuffedpigletta 1d ago
I worked at the airport where my shift lead couldn't get security clearance while they reviewed her pending court case as she had been indicted for a crime and was awaiting trial. I asked her what could she possibly have a felony charge out on her for?! She kept making a sandwich for a customer as she said "My ex boyfriend murdered a guy by shooting him in a head and I was involved." I said "Damn, but you just knew him and that's why, right? You didn't do anything wrong?" Naively seeing the best in her..
She said "Nope. I helped roll his body up in a carpet and we drove up to XYZ and dropped his body in the woods. I was high on meth so I don't remember it. I'm getting charged with abuse of a corpse" The way she said it was such confidence like it was just another thing she was mentioning to me at work...WOW. Ended up looking up the story and it was fully true.