It’s unlikely that any of us can accurately foresee the consequences of our actions.
Even if our motives seem good, things often spiral out of control.
We might attempt to apologize to the individual or find humor in the situation, but occasionally, the outcome is inevitable.
Story 1:
I had a friend. She was brought up by her great-aunt and lived with her. Her life was hard, and she was always depressed.
I felt sorry for her. I wanted to make her happy.
I was away on her birthday, so I bought her a present in advance and asked my husband to give it to her. He brought it, I was online at the time, and saw everything.
My husband handed the present to her and left immediately.
A month later she texted me that she fell in love with my husband and to make her happy I should leave him for her. And then she started threatening me. I will never deal with people like her anymore! © Overheard / Ideer
Story 2:
My uncle took me and my brother in because he wanted us to get a good education.
My mom and dad agreed, as they knew that my uncle would be able to give us a better shot at making something of ourselves.
My uncle’s intentions were good. However, my uncle’s wife made our lives hell. She basically mistreated us and my uncle was unable to do anything about it.
So his inaction made him complicit.
Even through the hardships, my brother and I still managed to get an education, but my uncle’s reputation was affected negatively. Family members don’t see him the same way, and his wife is really disliked (to put it mildly). It started with good intentions, but it didn’t end well for my uncle. © ksoss1 / Reddit
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Story 4:
After a long break in work and knowing that HR managers don’t like it, I prepared a k*ller answer in advance, “There were serious personal circumstances, I had to take a break.
Now all the problems have been solved, I am ready to work.” I thought I had broken the system.
But no. “What kind of personal circumstances? Why such secrecy?
You’re scaring us. Are you troubled? Where’s the guarantee that these circumstances won’t recur?
So why didn’t you work? You just didn’t want to?” This is the story of how I was outplayed and destroyed at my recent job interview. © Overheard / Ideer
Story 5:
I was sick, and my husband was nursing me. It was dark, and he was trying to give me a sip of ice water while I was lying in bed.
Instead, he started waterboarding me with ice water and didn’t realize it because he’s hard of hearing and all I could do was gurgle weakly, “please stop.” He didn’t realize he’d poured it all over me until I started trying to wiggle away. © brandonisatwat / Reddi
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Story 7:
My wife was cooking for the Christmas party. I decided to help her. While she went to change, I volunteered to make sandwiches and chop salads.
I did it all.
Satisfied with myself, I said to her, “The work is done.” She looked at it and said, “The baguette is not cut at a 45-degree angle, the spread is not up to the edges of the bread, salmon slices are messed up, and too much mayonnaise in the salads.”
I took offense and decided to eat muesli with milk. So, we are sitting at the Christmas table: I have a bowl of muesli, and my wife has a plate of delicacies. I was offended for about 15 minutes.
We made up just as the first guests arrived. Well, I turned out to be a bad helper. © Ward No. 6 / VK
Story 8:
My husband is a first-class tailor. Women wait months for their dresses and pay extra to have them made faster.
They brag their dresses on social media and write good reviews. He has a workshop and 4 workers. He sews for everyone, but not for me.
And all because when he was just starting his business, I pointed out his mistakes and shortcomings.
The last time, 8 years ago, he made a promise to never sew for me again and has kept his promise ever since. I have his students making dresses for me. So, I am a tailor’s wife without his signature dress.
It’s a shame. © Overheard / Ideer
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Story 10:
I am a teacher and was working at an independent school supporting struggling students. One student needed much more support than we could offer, and I spent the year coaching her parents around better options for the following year. Thankfully, her family got her into a school that better suited her educational needs.
And I got laid off because our highest needs student was gone, and the school felt like they no longer needed me as a result. © tiny_****_toucher / Reddit
Story 11:
I had an idea of giving a phone to a friend for his birthday — his old one had broken, and he complained about it a few times. But I decided to play a prank on him and pack the phone in an old kettle box. I came to the party and handed it to him.
The friend put it to the pile of all other gifts.
There was silence from him for 3 days. Then on the fourth day, he called me and said, “Bro, there’s an awkward situation here. Did you bring the kettle box?”
He gave it to his mum without opening it.
He thought she needed the kettle more. But she got an expensive phone instead and was delighted. It wasn’t nice to take it back from her, so he left the phone to his mum. © Chamber 6 / VK
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Story 13:
I once saw the handle from someone’s front door had come off and was lying on the pavement.
I thought that was no good because somebody could steal it, or it could get lost or whatever, but instead of seeing if I could reattach it (perhaps it could click back on) I put it through their letterbox. So now this person’s door had no handle to access the handle they would need to get into their house.
They saw the end of me doing this. I thought I was going to have to shove my skinny arm through the letterbox and get bitten by the dogs, I heard bark in an attempt to reach it.
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