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Our hotel has sold out of doubles, so I am asking everyone checking in:
Me: “Do you need one bed or two?”
Our double queens are cheaper than a single king, so single travelers will book those often. If they needed two beds, I would just upgrade them to a double-bed suite anyway.
Two ladies came in with a bunch of kids, and I asked them the same question. One of the ladies snapped at me.
Lady: “Is it not written there? Do you not see what was reserved?”
Me: “Yes, ma’am, I see you booked a standard queen. I was just asking to see if we could get you into a little bit of a bigger room for your party. But I will make sure you get exactly what you booked.”
They looked at each other, scoffed, and said:
Both: “Aw, man.”
So, I did some switcheroos and upgraded someone else who had booked a double. The satisfaction of hearing them sigh was magnificent!
Our single-bed suites also have a pull-out couch, so that’s why I asked the ladies who had kids, but they didn’t let me get that far into the question before going off about how I can’t read.
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This is a broken or duplicate post This is an offensive story Other story issue <!— Post Tags + Location 5/18/17 —> Children, Home, Parents/Guardians, USA | Related | August 30, 2025 My mother is visiting to see her new grandson. We struggled to come up with a name during the pregnancy, so we’ve only just settled on a name.
Mom: “He’s so adorable! What do I call him? He looks like a George, or an Edward, or a—”
Me: “—Indiana.”
Mom:*Sniffs.* “No, no, that won’t do. He needs a real name, not some trendy social media stuff!”
Me: “Mom, you’re acting like we’re still deciding. It’s done. His name is Indiana.”
Mom: “Well, that’s stupid! He’s going to be bullied all his life for being named after a state!”
Me: “Indiana Jones would disagree.”
Mom: “He’s not real! No one is named after a state!”
Me: “Dakota Fanning and Johnson.”
Mom: “I don’t even know who they are!”
Me: “Real people. Actresses.”
Mom: “Well, I mean people of note! Not some flimsy celebrity!”
Me: “Virginia Woolf?”
Mom: “Well, that’s different, these are all women, so it’s not as bad! Boys are meaner and there’s no—”
Me: “—Tennessee Williams.”
Mom: “…”
Me: “So we’re done? We can move on now?”
Mom: “Still a stupid name.”
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This is a broken or duplicate post This is an offensive story Other story issue <!— Post Tags + Location 5/18/17 —> Bizarre, Home, Jerk, Strangers, USA, Yard Sale | Friendly | August 30, 2025 I was doing some spring cleaning and decided to put everything I didn’t want on a table in front of my house. People came by throughout the day, picking through and asking weird things like “Do you have this shirt in a large?” Or “I was really hoping you would have some adult DVDs…”
The woman who took the cake arrived hours after everyone else had stopped coming, right as my husband and I were sitting down to dinner.
Woman:*Rapidly knocking on the door.* “Hello? Hello! Is anybody home?”
Husband:*Opening the door.* “Hi. Can I help you?”
Woman:*Shoves a box of random items into his arms.* “Here you go!”
Husband: “Um… why?”
Woman: “For your yard sale thing here.”
Husband: “We aren’t selling anything. We’re giving away our things.
Woman: “Oh. Well…” *She turns to leave.* “Have a nice day!”
My husband catches up to her and puts the box on the trunk of her car.
Woman: “I don’t want it!”
Me: “Neither do we!”
Woman: “Well, just… just take it!”
Me: “For $100, I’ll take everything.”
Woman: “Okay!” *She holds out her hand.*
Me: “No. If you want us to take your junk, you’re paying us.”
Woman: “Absolutely not!”
Husband: “Then take your box and leave.”
The woman snatches the box off her car and drives off. Later that evening, we were watching TV when our front porch light turned on and the camera announced that there was a person outside. We looked out to see the woman running away.
Husband: “Hey! No!”
Woman: “It’s yours now! Bye!”
She drove away. We looked at the box: broken toys, ripped books, stained clothing, nothing even worth putting out. We reached out to the local police, but they basically told us “It’s just trash, throw it away.”
Instead, I went on our town’s Facebook group and uploaded the videos of the woman trying to give us the box earlier in the day and dropping it, and running in the evening.
Me: “Hi neighbors! It looks like one of you got a little confused about what “no” meant today. If anyone knows this woman, please let her know that we did not want her box of broken toys and dirty laundry. The police have been contacted.”
I didn’t include the part where they said they wouldn’t/couldn’t help us, but it didn’t matter. In almost no time, people were commenting, all tagging the same woman. Some of them asked, “is this you?” while others called her out on her behavior. Woman messaged me.
Woman: “Take that down! You have no right to record me! That is defamation, and I will sue you!”
Me: “Send your lawyer to come get your s*** sitting by the mailbox then.”
She didn’t say anything else, but she did show up in the very early hours (nearly 3 AM) to collect her box. The camera and porch light turned on again just in time to catch her coming up to the porch and knocking everything off the table before throwing up two middle fingers. My husband and I considered contacting the police again, but since they weren’t helpful the first time, we didn’t. Instead, I updated my post to include a screenshot of our messages and the video of her last visit.Me: “Thank you to everyone who helped identify yesterday’s visitor. As you can see, she came by to get her box this morning. Have a good weekend, Town residents!”
In the end, everything we put out was given away. It was frustrating to deal with that crazy woman, but looking back, it did give us a good laugh!
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This is a broken or duplicate post This is an offensive story Other story issue <!— Post Tags + Location 5/18/17 —> Bad Behavior, Bigotry, Electronics Store, Parents/Guardians, Technology, USA | Right | August 30, 2025 I’m working a busy shift and notice a seemingly unattended kid tapping away on the display laptops. Fine, whatever. But then he starts trying to slam one shut. Since they’re locked into the mounts, even halfway would crack the screen.
Me: “Hey kiddo, don’t do that. You’ll break the computer.”
Suddenly, his mom swoops in (from where, I have no idea).
Mom: “Don’t yell at my child!”
Me: “I didn’t yell. I asked him not to close the laptops, because they’ll break if he does.”
Mom:*Yelling.* “You yelled! I’ve been here lots of times with disabled people using the laptops, and they’ve never been yelled at before!”
I just stare at her for a moment, then:
Me: “Every disabled person I’ve seen here showed more control than you just did, let alone your kid.”
She grabbed her kid and stomped off while the nearest customer muttered, “Finally, someone said it.”
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This is a broken or duplicate post This is an offensive story Other story issue <!— Post Tags + Location 5/18/17 —> Australia, History, New South Wales, School, Sydney | Learning | August 30, 2025 I’m teaching history to a class of Year 4 students (ages nine to ten). They are learning about the European explorers of Australia. Today, we are discussing Captain James Cook, the English settler who charted the east coast of Australia. One student eventually raises her hand.
Student: “I thought that a different explorer discovered Australia.”
Me: “Well, a few explorers charted different areas of the country. James Cook was the first to chart the east coast, but he wasn’t the first to discover Australia. Who was it that you were thinking of?”
Student: “George Washington? Wasn’t he one of the explorers?”
Me: “No… for a wide variety of reasons.”
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