Yes, I had a friend in high school that was as normal as can be. Met him at our high school reunion and within 5 minutes of chatting he starts spewing these nonsense goverment conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 and the Boston Bombing. He even pulled out a dollar bill an tried showing hidden messages. Dude turned into a loon.

I knew a girl in high school who was pretty cool. We went on a class trip and spent a lot of time hanging out, then later I went to a few punk shows with her.

7 or 8 years later, I was back in town visiting. I stopped at a gas station to fill up, and this emaciated, dirty creature stepped out of the shadows and asked me if I had any spare change. It was her. She looked like she hadn't eaten in days and had track marks all up and down her arms. She didn't recognize me. I gave her the few bills I had in my pocket and left. Kind of haunts me to this day.

edit (4 months later): She actually messaged me on FB recently. Looks like she kicked her habit and is doing well today!

Two years after we broke up, an ex contacted me out of the blue and we decided to hang out. While dating we'd talked a lot about dropping out of high school and getting our GEDs so we could go to college early--I never did either one, and he decided it'd be a good plan to drop out but never get his GED. He was playing the Yu-Gi-Oh card game pretty much full-time (this was a while ago) and living off of his mom. He was living in this apartment full of garbage with a friend, his girlfriend, and her baby. I ran for the hills.

A few years back, I met up with an old friend to find out that he only wanted to hang out so he could pitch a pyramid scheme to me.

I found out that an individual whom I played sports with (many times giving me rides to practice and games) was running a near multiple year long internet scam.

They posed as a parent whose child had cancer, using pictures they stole from other people and their children around the internet. The scam ended up gaining scores of supporters and went so far as selling personalized wristbands with the "child's" (remember the child is not real) name on it. They are now under investigation for possible money laundering (however it is not proven that they did or did not). This scam was so large that there are multiple large news groups that picked up and reported the story (which is how I found out).

My mind is still blown from my discovery.

Got fired (by me) for s*xually harassing his manager DURING a s*xual harassment prevention training session.

Happened to a friend: Employee brought brownies to work on his birthday. There was w*ed in it. Everyone was sent home at like 10 am (high af, obvs).

Employee was fired on the spot.

There was a guy at my company who was a field supervisor. He let go of 2 of his guys go but didn't tell HR. Instead he changed their banking info for their direct deposit to a his own credentials. And he kept them active on payroll as field personnel while he collected their paychecks until he got caught.

My family forged my grandmother’s will and embezzled $330k from my inheritance. And $110k from my sister’s. We didn’t find out until it was 10 years too late.

My Aunt and uncle were professional thieves. Like, that was their entire job and they lived WELL.

One day my mom and I were talking about our types, who we like, who likes us. I told her I felt like Asian men don’t tend to find me that attractive. She looked off and smiled for a moment, then told me I’d have to go to Asia to really say that. I asked her if she’d ever been, she shook her head no, left the kitchen, and sat in our garden for hours. Some years after she was gone, I found her passport. She had a Japanese stamp in it. I think she loved someone there, kept it close to her heart.

I was hunting for pics for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and found pictures of them in wedding gear with all three of their kids in the 70s. That’s when I found out my grandma divorced my grandpa and married his brother for a couple years then divorced the brother and remarried my grandpa. They just pretended like it didn’t happen.

My grandma was excommunicated from the Catholic Church because she found out that my granddad was a p**o, so she went to her minister to seek help from the church to leave her husband. She told the minister why she was leaving him, the minister said she had to stay with him or be excommunicated. She left him. Took their 6 kids, with no benefits, no help from the church, all alone, with no income she still left him. I’m so proud of her 🩷

My grandpa stole my grandma and moved her away from her family. Lived on a mountain. Had 20 children. And they wonder why she never loved him.
Me: so he kidnapped her?
Them; noooo, he loved her so much he wanted her all to himself.
What???

In 2020, I found out my parents had 3 babies that they placed for adoption . My 3 sisters and I found out through Ancestry DNA. Not half siblings, full sisters. I have met 2 in person , hoping to meet the third one later this summer.

That my older "sister" is actually my mother

my grandma married a gay man. they were best friends since school age, he was in the war. but being gay wasnt acceptable, so they got married to cover it, and she covered for him when he would sleep with guys

A PSA came on the TV one day for s****l a***e. I am a few years older than my cousin, so I told her that if any of that ever happened to her, she needed to step up and tell someone. A couple weeks later, my mom got a phone call that my grandfather had been arrested. He had been s******y a*****g both of my cousins. My cousin listened and spoke up.

As I said in the title, I was hit by a car four days ago, I'm okay, but have lots of bruising and have broken my left leg. I'm now in a wheelchair. I know that both the church and the venue are wheelchair accessible, as another guest is an ambulatory wheelchair user, so she may have to use it throughout the day. I obviously will have to use mine as well, I can't move onto crutches from another 5 weeks and that's only if my healing goes as well as expected.

In a phonecall this morning, the bride suggested it would be best if I didn't attend because and I quote "you and *other guest's name* would be stealing all the attention, especially with your cast and bruising. Maybe you just come to the reception and buy a new dress to cover up all that mess"

My bruising will have hopefully gone down by then, but I was already planning on hiring an mua to help me better cover them too. I've already tested the dress I was planning to wear in my wheelchair, only my ankle and foot are visible. I'm still trying to think of ideas to hide it the rest of the cast the best I can, but it's always going to be somewhat visible, especially due to the size of it and how bulky it is.

I have known the bride since we were in pre school, we stayed friends throughout primary, secondary, college and even through being at universities 400+ miles apart. And honestly, if a leg cast and a second wheelchair user is what is going to ruin her wedding and our friendship, I think I'm better off not going and cutting contact.

When I was two, my mom had me with her in a voting booth and was about to vote for president. I pressed a button to enter her votes before she had a chance. It was 1980 and I kept her from voting for Regan.

When I was 6 weeks old, I was smuggled out of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, into the Republic while being hidden in a trunk with two people from the American Consulate dressed as clergy, then we were flown to England and then America. My dad was in the RA along with other family members and my mom overreacted. I have dual citizenship.

I grew up in a town that banned trick-or-treating on Halloween. For 20+ years.

Nothing crazy: but I landed a prop plane in a red dirt airstrip in Venezuela after our pilot had a seizure. I’m more qualified to treat the seizure than land a plane, but we all survived.

The police accusing me of a crime, I didn’t commit, led to me getting struck by a vehicle, which led to my EDS diagnosis.

When I was 14 yrs old, I was “unadopted”. But it wasn’t until I was 53 years old that I learned it was never done through a court of law, so I was never LEGALLY unadopted. Attempting to prove my existence - on paper - has been a nightmare. I have not been able to change my last name to my married last name and I haven’t been able to travel outside of America. On paper, today, those horrific adopters are *legally* my parents still.

I broke out of a psych ward by pretending to be in a visitors family

I finished a bottle of shampoo and conditioner at the same time

Much like couples get a dog before having a kid, my parents got a parakeet. We lost the parakeet when I was 7. She’s in the freezer, in a box and a bag with 2 twist ties behind the ice trays because my dad wants us to put the bird in the breast pocket of his suit when we bury him.

My parents have been together their whole lives. Literally. They were born in the same room the same night. Not in a creepy cult way, in a “in the 60s you had roommates in the maternity wing” way and my grandmothers randomly got put together. They became fast friends and the rest is history. I have baby pictures of my parents together. I tell everyone it’s my superhero origin story

I saw a man tumbling through the sky a few years ago. He was close enough that I could tell what he was wearing. He simply disappeared

When I birthed my firstborn the nurse told me to reach down and grab him under the armpits and pull him out. I have only met ONE other person who had this experience. I was in a normal hospital, it wasn’t a home birth or anything!

I drove through a rainbow when I was 16. Driving uphill through low clouds; I watched a rainbow slowly getting closer, it crossed onto the road, then moved over the hood of the truck, and onto the dashboard. I put my hand in it. It was purple.