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Civil servant here, we all hate the red tape as much as you and wasting so much time on bureaucracy. We really would like to move things along faster, but if we just pushed things through and didn't discuss it with the elected officials, then it wouldn't really be democracy would… Read More

Blew up my knee, it swelled to the size of a baseball, getting too low dancing at a wedding

As a young child in the 90's, more than once, I put my toast into the VCR. My parents keep telling me not to but in my defense it fit so perfectly!

During a trip to Bali we decided to take a boat to the Gili Islands. The ferry was deemed dangerous as one had sunken not too far in the past so we opted for a speed boat. The trip was about an hour on some of the choppiest water I've ever experienced. At one point the entire, 20… Read More

My boyfriend and I had been living in South Korea and took a final trip to Thailand before coming home. We rushed to get on our flights and realized we had forgotten to get out any cash. We asked around the boarding area of the airport and there were no ATMs but they assured us our… Read More

Growing up I had a very old school dentist. Once he had to drill my front tooth to replace a cap on it. He said "this will be easy, you won't need any numbing". Spoiler alert- I very much did. I had no idea there was such a thing as numbing your gums before a needle until I changed… Read More

My coworker is a volunteer firefighter. We have a very rigid schedule as we answer calls with a small staff and the phone must be manned at all times. One day he messaged my coworker and I, not management, that he had to go fight a fire in the middle of the day. He was gone for three… Read More

Seasin 4 of Dexter. i don't normally react out loud to tv but when he found Rita I gasped.

A male coworker told me he and another male coworker were placing bets on if I was pregnant. I was just getting fatter. Thanks so much for pointing that out, if I wasn't self conscious before (I was), I sure as hell am now!

We kept invites to just close family because my fiance had a lot of cousins who were very interesting characters; including one who made his living as a drug dealer. Unbeknownst to either of us, my father in-law told the cousins they were welcome to come to the reception, just not… Read More