That goldfish only live for 3 days naturally and anything longer is unnatural interference.

Went to Disney world some years back and was at a strip mall in Kissimmee or there abouts pushing my at the time 11 mo old son, when a foreign guy starts following us (Middle Eastern, possibly Caucasian as in Armenian, Georgian) You see these guys all the time in malls selling their wares so I pay him no mind, but after bit he runs out in front and cuts us off the stroller with his foot.

He proceeds to ask who the parents were and offered to buy him! I thought it was a joke, you know his way of saying how adorable he is, but no he pulls out a wad of dough (at least 3k) and insisted. I was shocked and didnt know how to respond, "how do you have the gall to walk up to strangers and ask to buy their child?" It showed me that he must have done it before to be that brazen and what was the outcome, illegal adoption schemes, something more nefarious? Given some of the stresses of parenting I always joke and say I wonder if the deal is still on table, in fact Ill pay him this time, lol, but when I think back I should've alerted someone.

That dinosaurs never existed. They thought dinosaurs were a hoax made up by Satan.

I was the hiring manager doing job interviews for a job where I, a woman, would be the line manager. We have to ask a standard HR question on EDI (something like “tell us about a time when you worked well with someone from a different background” or whatever). The candidate replied with a good example, but then ended it with “but generally I prefer not to work with women”. Incredible stuff.

Someone claimed their child's school put litter boxes in the bathrooms at the school. All because they heard a rumor that was coming out of the US and their child claimed it was also happening at their school. 


I just nodded along and asked if they checked with their head of school or teachers. 


Nope. Just blindly believing this.

My boss once told me, 'We don’t need a backup plan because failure is not in our budget.' I thought he was being inspirational. He was actually just telling me we don't have insurance.

One of our engineers walked into my office. He had spent the morning working with a technician to troubleshoot an aircraft electrical issue. The engineer was in mid-hissy fit. Why was he upset? Because the technician was born in the Philippines, and had an unusual sounding (to a Westerner) name. The engineer stood before my desk and launched into a rant complaining that his freedumbs were being trampled upon because this technician’s name wasn’t something he was used to in rural Tennessee. He further insisted that the Government pass laws regulating the names given to children - I guess he wanted a world where every male child was named Cletus or Bubba.

And yes, this guy was very noisy about being a “strict Constitutionalist” and a “small government conservative”.

This elderly guy told my tatted friend that her skin would have made a good lamp during ww2.

"Hey, your kid is autistic so you're against vaccines, right?"

First time I'd ever heard anything like that from a guy I worked with for years, and always thought he was a very laid back, easy going dude. Surprised the hell out of me.