Breaking bad news is sometimes unavoidable, but it doesn't make it any easier. Whether it's letting someone know their dream job isn’t going to happen or telling them a harsh truth, these moments can quickly spiral into uncomfortable situations. \nFrom painfully awkward conversations to shocking reactions, these people took to Reddit to share the worst “I hate to break it to you” moments they’ve ever had. Prepare to cringe, laugh, and feel thankful you weren't on the other end of these conversations!"],"image":{"name":"70p676cacqjc7kof.jpg","credit":"Photo by Jorge César on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

\"I used to work in a customer care call centre for a major telecommunications company. A woman called in one day to inquire about two 99$ charges on her bill from LavaLife. She kept pressing about the charges, what they were, and I had to explain to her that LavaLife is a dating service and that the charges were legitimate. \nIf she didn't make them, did someone else live in her house who might have? There was only her husband, and I heard her go from '…But he would never…' to 'I have to go now' as it set in. That was almost 20 years ago now and I still feel awful about it.\""],"title":"Lava Shock","image":{"name":"ux20dwvdnb7mk67g.jpg","credit":"Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/IDriveLikeYourMom: \"Had a friend ask me about some green sign in the distance. It was in fact a sodium vapour sign giving off an intense orange light which sodium vapour is known for. \nHad to tell him right there that he was colour blind. He was in his mid thirties too. A lot of odd things that had happened in his past fell into place for him that day.\""],"title":"Color Revelation","image":{"name":"7goonw1u3z1385x7.jpg","credit":"Photo by Timothy L Brock on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1055},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":586}}}},{"text":["

U/livefast_petdogs: \"I work at a charity and spent 2 hours explaining to an older woman that she was in a honeypot scam. The man claimed to be part of my organization and 'we would reimburse for the trip she was about to pay for'. \nWitnessing a stranger's whole future shatter before me…heartbreaking. I thank my lucky stars that she called to verify.\""],"title":"Heartbreaking Scam","image":{"name":"fjqixnscayj5su9n.jpg","credit":"Photo by Teona Swift/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/FingerSlamGrandpa: \"My best friend in high school was over weight and would sweat profusely. We would come in after lunch in Texas and he would smell awful. I think he would wear his clothes without washing them after sweating. \nWe had english after and the ac sucked so teacher put a fun in the window. He would sit in front of the fan and blow his funk over everyone. The class got together and voted that I should be the one to tell him. Well I had to break it to him that for the last year he has smelled horribly. I felt pretty bad but he never stunk again.\""],"title":"Stinking Truth","image":{"name":"487epy9d7nqeefqj.jpg","credit":"Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":266}}}},{"text":["

U/primordialpaunch: \"I had an employee who was a strict vegetarian for religious reasons. One day, we were discussing the employee salad bar and he mentioned how much he loved the Caesar dressing packets they offered. I was surprised and stupidly blurted out, 'Oh, I didn't realize you ate fish!' He responded that he was vegetarian and gave me a quizzical look. I had to explain that the salad dressing contained both fish and Parmesan cheese, which is almost always cultured with animal rennet. \nHe didn't believe me and, the next day, insisted on reading the ingredients on one of the packets to me to prove to me that I was wrong. Then he got to the anchovies and got quiet. I still feel awful that he had to find out that way. Neither of us handled the situation well.\""],"title":"Vegetarian Surprise","image":{"name":"ibawpm0mizejprzo.jpg","credit":"Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/Cool-Newspapers: \"Oof, definitely the time I had to tell a friend that the business opportunity…. he was so excited about was actually a pyramid scheme. He was so hyped, talking about how he was going to quit his job and be his own boss. \nI tried to ease into it, but there’s really no soft way to say, Hey man, you’re about to lose a lot of money and ruin your friendships.\""],"title":"Scheme Reveal","image":{"name":"pnuvxn9i9r0lii2j.jpg","credit":"Photo by Muhammad Faiz Zulkeflee on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":900},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":500}}}},{"text":["

U/MrWardrobexX: \"In my job i occasionally have to break the news to people their relative has died, and in normally sudden and unexpected circumstances. \nWe are taught to specifically tell them 'they’re dead' or something similar, and not that they passed or ‘are in a better place’ to avoid exactly what happened to you. it’s harder being blunt, but in the end it’s much better.\""],"title":"Brutal Clarity","image":{"name":"9e7wrepqx4zpxk9z.jpg","credit":"Photo by Luke Jones on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/Avocado-Toast-93: \"My sister in law. My niece plays field hockey and I love her. She plays in two different leagues. Meaning it’s 3 hours of field hockey games every Saturday and Sunday. My SIL expected me and my husband to drive an hour one way both days to watch niece play and pay rapt attention the whole time. \nDid I mention the games are at 7 am? We did this about once a month on either Saturday or Sunday and I guess this wasn’t enough for her. We had to tell her that we loved Niece but we weren’t going to be as involved as she was in the league.\""],"title":"Hockey Commitment","image":{"name":"bjtmtmkcm83tmspg.jpg","credit":"Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/Juxie: \"Freshman year of college a friend said that he was going to go barefoot as much as possible to toughen up his feet so that his future kids would be born with tough feet too. \nHad to explain to him why that wouldn’t work and the basics of genetics. He didn’t believe me and stuck with his theory. We have since lost touch but I know he had a son a few years ago. I’ll have to ask him if it worked out…\""],"title":"Foot Theory","image":{"name":"doh8bjfxwk8j9193.jpg","credit":"Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/swishymuffinzzz: \"Not me but I went to visit my dad at his job and he has an employee there who was kind of bragging to his other co workers about how well he has been doing at the job and thinking of asking for promotion.\nMy dad later told me that he fired that guy later that day due to poor performance despite multiple attempts to help him lol.\""],"title":"Bragging Rights","image":{"name":"21awreupaid8du2y.jpg","credit":"Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/khendron: \"I was at a tech entrepreneurial meetup back in 2012. I spoke with one guy who was enthusiastically describing his billion dollar idea: an app that people at the gym could use to track their workouts and do challenges. He said there was even a social media potential because people could share their progress.\n'You mean like Strava?' I asked, thinking he had perhaps identified a niche market not covered by Strava, Endomondo, and others. I got a confused 'What?' in response. He'd never heard of it. The look on his face when I showed him the app and he saw that his idea had been thoroughly realized for some time was tragic. How he had gotten as far with his idea as he had without finding any existing apps is a mystery to me.\""],"title":"Tragic Discovery","image":{"name":"p88dx2wrx869e37k.jpg","credit":"Photo by Alexander Sampietro/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/RareBeautyOnEtsy: \"I have two. The first one was having to tell my father and my brother‘s girlfriend that my brother had been in a bad automobile accident, that my cousin who had been with him, was dead, and my brother was in a coma in a hospital three hours away.\nThe second one was when I had to tell my mother that my sister was…with my mother’s boyfriend. That was a tough one. And yes, I was 100% sure…\""],"title":"Devastating News","image":{"name":"80dv6kpx56x1et98.jpg","credit":"Photo by Max Ovcharenko on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":900},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":500}}}},{"text":["

U/Whatatimetobealive83: \"A very long time ago I had two buddies who were both pretty well on equal footing with me. Two of my best friends. One of them started [seeing] the other one’s girlfriend.\nThat was rough. I wrestled with it for a long time and my decision to tell the victim ultimately lead to loosing the other one as a friend. Much as that sucked I still say it was the right thing to do.\""],"title":"Betrayal Exposed","image":{"name":"ycysscfl28gth97w.jpg","credit":"Photo by Allen Taylor on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/Zporadik: \"It's always telling parents that their kid sucks at the sport they're doing. The parents drop and run and never see what the kids are doing at workouts and then when the kid gets cut from the top team they complain with [stuff] like… \n'But I dropped them off 6 times a week for the whole season' and I hit them with the 'I hate to break it to you but turning up is not the same as actually working out.'\""],"title":"Sports Reality","image":{"name":"ohddt9job4tajzw7.jpg","credit":"Photo by cottonbro studio/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/RecognitionEast1278: \"I was crossing the road at Great Portland Street when I heard a screeching of brakes. I turned around to see a dude flying through the air. It all happened in slow motion.\nI got to him quickly and checked him over. He said, 'I'm going skiing tomorrow.' I said 'no, you're not,' as I found the bottom half of his leg was [broken]. Had to phone his wife and break the news.\""],"title":"Broken Plans","image":{"name":"kfg5ukaxf2xksx63.jpg","credit":"Photo by Вениамин Курочкин/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/own_pleasure777: \"I hate to break it to you, but the hardest moment was telling my best friend that their partner was cheating. \nThey were so in love and completely blinded by it, and when I broke the news, it shattered their world. It even strained our friendship for a while because sometimes, even when you're trying to help, the truth is too painful to accept.\""],"title":"Love's Betrayal","image":{"name":"3dbfdt17uyfui8qo.jpg","credit":"Photo by RDNE Stock project/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/AdvancedLink5603: \"We had a guy apply for a job. He wanted to be in the light tech at the theater. He was blind. I’m 100% sure that it was a scam to try to pull a disability claim for not hiring him, but my boss being the brilliant person, he is sat him down, gave him an interview and then said…\nI need you to explain to me exactly how you’re going to be able to do this being blind because we will have to do accommodations for you and we need to know that upfront because only reasonable accommodations can be done. Of course the guy took off and never came back.\""],"title":"Blind Ambition","image":{"name":"0r1rtkdgl55wff5v.jpg","credit":"Photo by Thirdman/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/confusedmaybechemist: \"A friend of mine unironically thought that he was the first person ever to experience existentialism- he literally said that no one ever talks about how small we are in the grand scope of the universe and kept saying that no one else ever wants to talk about the meaning of life.\nI felt too bad to explain to him that the concept of how small we are in relation to our world has literally been one of the backbones of philosophy for centuries.\""],"title":"Existential Awakening","image":{"name":"f8cqy09k4v2du95l.jpg","credit":"Photo by Alex Andrews/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1127},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":626}}}},{"text":["

U/FalseRoof6427: \"My husband passed and like 3 weeks later his account was charged for like 3k in a sporting goods store in tx we live in Fl.. I called the store it was spent on two canoes which he def didn’t buy he was dead and his cards including debit which they somehow used .. \nThe bank refunded all the money and said that this happens all the time after someone dies there’s people that like look in obituaries and find dead people and then steal their identities and like get bank cards out of it somehow it’s crazy what these scammers can do nowadays.\""],"title":"Dead Man's Heist","image":{"name":"geznbpgons4loqv0.jpg","credit":"Photo by CardMapr.nl on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":481},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/TeacherPatti: \"Having to tell a a student who was almost totally blind that she likely couldn't be an ER nurse. She and her dad moved to our district and at the IEP, her dad starts talking about how he can't wait for 'Sue' to go to nursing school. I frantically scanned my brain, trying to think of how someone who was going to need Braille would be able to do that job. Then Sue piped up to say that her dream was to be an ER nurse.\nShe had a degenerative disease that would eventually make her blind. I talked to my friends who are nurses, I talked to our career lady at the school, I researched but there just wasn't any way someone who couldn't see could be an ER nurse. I reconvened the IEP and had to explain this.\""],"title":"Dreams on Hold","image":{"name":"qykxkmkuqvspjut1.jpg","credit":"Photo by Ani Kolleshi on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":490},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":272}}}},{"text":["

U/Sempais_nutrients: \"I had the same discussion with a roommate years ago, he was using a chinese mail order wife website that was quite clearly designed to drain wallets and that is about it. he was convinced that he was different tho, that it was a scam for everyone else but him. \nEventually it became far too obvious for him to ignore and he stopped, but from then on he acted cold toward me and my friend who brought it up to him.\""],"title":"Price of Love","image":{"name":"duef9pnv1iregvyq.jpg","credit":"Photo by oktavianus mulyadi on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

U/FartAttack911: \"After a family wedding, my dad and some of his cousins he hadn’t seen in years were at my parents’ home…catching up. As they were laughing about an old story from being kids, my dad asked one of the cousins how his little brother is doing, cause they hadn’t talked in a few years. The room got so dead silent instantaneously that we could tell something was very off. \nThe cousin he asked about with the brother got choked up and another cousin awkwardly told my dad that the brother had died the year prior. Turns out my entire family was aware and had all gone to the memorial and been notified. My grandma somehow failed to realize nobody had informed my parents, so it was literally only my family that had no clue.\""],"title":"Family Faux Pas","image":{"name":"vyb8x2gsq184cq3z.jpg","credit":"Photo by The Good Funeral Guide on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/ThrowRA31263: \"My friend has been constantly complaining about her husband. I visited them for a couple of weeks and I had to break to her that she is the problem, like massively so. I genuinely felt sorry for her husband by the time I left. \nThe man gets both verbally and emotionally abused constantly. I told him he should report her to the police if she ever [did it] again cause honestly, the situation is completely out of control. Even more out of control than she is, she needs a couple nights in jail to rethink her choices tbh.\""],"title":"Marriage Mayhem","image":{"name":"7scvy7g44lwhzoao.jpg","credit":"Photo by Timur Weber/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

U/wellyboot97: \"Oh god this is the worst. I had to do this with a friend in high school. I felt bad for her as she had a pretty bad home life but she smelled so bad. Like a mixture of wet dog and BO. We had to tell her because other people were noticing and making fun of her over it, and also it just wasn’t pleasant to be around for anyone. \nShe did get better and as soon as she was old enough to move out she totally stopped smelling, so a lot wasn’t even her fault it was just her unclean home. Still one of the worst conversations I’ve ever had to have though.\""],"title":"Smell Check","image":{"name":"9mf811mn512gfvnu.jpg","credit":"Photo by Laura Chouette on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":960},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":533}}}},{"text":["

U/InkLorenzo: \"1. had to tell my Uni housemate his girlfriend (my other housemate) had left him and was currently…with another guy. 2. that the roman numerals my cousin had gotten tattooed were in fact not the date of her child's birth. \n

\n
1. I had to tell my dog that just because I'm eating something, he doesn't also get to eat some of it, and as it had chocolate in it it would actually make him sick if he did. that one was difficult.\"\n"],"title":"Bombshell Alert","image":{"name":"e7ebkb6uwlsu4olf.jpg","credit":"Photo by Camylla Battani on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/kberryha: \"Had a buddy who was head over heels for a girl he met online. They'd been chatting non-stop for months, and he was convinced she was 'the one.' He was about to wire her a large sum of money to help with some 'emergency.' \nSomething didn't sit right with me, so I did a reverse image search on her photos and found out they were stolen from a model's Instagram.\""],"title":"Catfished Cupid","image":{"name":"p5pttpn6nge31ut5.jpg","credit":"Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/ashleylibby: \"Something like this just recently happened to me. i kept telling my boss that i’ve been getting dizzy, nauseous, and headaches more frequently lately, particularly after i drive anywhere. i told my boss, because i’m required to go to meetings over 1 hour away and i didn’t feel comfortable driving my car until my scheduled appointment with my mechanic.\nMy boss told me 'oh it’s fine, you just have driving anxiety, you don’t need to do the meeting over zoom. you can drive your car' and implied if i didn’t show in-person it would be a ‘bigger discussion’ later i go to the mechanic last week and i have a gas leak. i’ve been breathing in gas fumes inside my car every time i drive for months now.\""],"title":"Anxiety on Wheels","image":{"name":"x435nm0dqlo9fm76.jpg","credit":"Photo by Mathieu Renier on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Molloney178: \"I was travelling for work in Australia. Let's say I was commuting between Perth and Sydney and back again. The back again flight was at stupid o clock, requiring me to get up at 3am to leave at 4am to be at the airport by 5am. \nI was groggy and moving on autopilot. I stopped to buy a coffee at an airport kiosk and the barista asked me … where are you flying to today? I sleepily replied 'to Sydney' and the guy looked stunned. He said 'I hate to break it to you, but you ARE in Sydney.'\""],"title":"Time Travel","image":{"name":"hi0oldgh5ucs8j3z.jpg","credit":"Photo by Fatima Garcia on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":900},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":500}}}},{"text":["

   U/VivaVoceVignette: \"Daughter of my mom's closest friend. When she floated the idea of owning a dog, I told her that since she has dog allergy, she should not get any dogs. She proceeded to ignore the advice and get 3 dogs just because they are cute, one of them love to climb into her bed every night. \nAfter 3 years of complaining about headache, fatigue, constant runny nose and skin problems, I finally have a 'I hate to break it to you moment' with her and she finally believed me and decided to give the dogs to her maid (it was a longer story than that, she first tested it by banishing that dog from her bedroom, then eventually restricting them to just the ground floor, and her symptoms keep improving after each attempt). Her symptoms vanished within 3 months.\""],"title":"Doggone It!","image":{"name":"uzey6ri2d8ty1zv0.jpg","credit":"Photo by Mike Burke on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Mean_Amphibian1496: \"I was the one being 'breaked' to. In university, I was with a group of classmates and briefly ranted about how annoying it was when people recorded and posted countless, seemingly infinitely long video clips of concerts they attended. \nAwkward silence, then two of the people there 'jokingly' said they felt a bit personally attacked, chuckled and said something like 'I want my friends to be able to see many different parts of the concerts.' But I don't regret anything. Stand for what I said and weren't close to anyone there.\""],"title":"On Record","image":{"name":"rr3vpdin48261y3e.jpg","credit":"Photo by Yvette de Wit on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Embarrassed-Stock648: \"My fiance died a few months before our wedding. He had a life insurance policy through work and I was the sole beneficiary. I offered to use some of the money to pay for his funeral. \nHis sister, who was unemployed, called to inform me they were going to use all of the insurance money to pay off my fiancé's house so she could live there. She didn't even ask, she simply felt entitled to all of the money. I had to inform her I would not be giving her a free place to live.\""],"title":"Sister Shock","image":{"name":"u20lcdfcwm6wnr5h.jpg","credit":"Photo by The Good Funeral Guide on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":479},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":266}}}},{"text":["

   U/SpewPewPew: \"I had a friend who was a musician. And we worked at a videostore; he did it for health insurance. But otherwise he was successful to be able to earn a living wage through his craft. A guy from a group of friends ignored him one day on the job. For months he was wondering why. It would come up. He'd whine about it. And then it would be a while before he wondered again months later. \nThe last time he wondered about why, I told him the truth from which I overheard; the friend thought he was a 'loser' for working at the videostore. I did it out of frustration because he was still bothered by it. He was absolutely heart broken about it. None of us saw him for a week after that.\""],"title":"Loser Label","image":{"name":"2wjlbbb6mbxxi0wy.jpg","credit":"Photo by John Salvino on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":961},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":534}}}},{"text":["

   U/3D_Otters: \"My mom and I, at best, tolerated each other my entire life. It got to the point that my dad was the messenger of communication between us. I went to see my dad for the holidays. During my visit, an argument broke out between my mom and I. \nShe started screaming about how this was most probably the last Christmas we'd get to be a family because she and my dad were on the verge of divorce. I remember screaming 'I didn't visit for you. I visited in spite of you. I'm here for dad.' I will never forget her face.\""],"title":"Christmas Story","image":{"name":"e0neyrrinzy7xlr8.jpg","credit":"Photo by Kyle Head on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Just-a-Party-Muffin: \"I work in a smaller airport. It’s pretty normal for someone to come in and hang around the lobby. However, sometimes they’re still around after the last flight leaves. They’ll ask when the flight to '' is expected to which you reply that we don’t have flights there. They start to look worried, then denial kicks in. 'That can’t be right, my friend said they were flying into this airport today.' \nSo you dig a little deeper. 'Are you certain they didn’t actually mean ‘_’?' 'Yes, yes! This is the boarding pass they sent me a picture of.' They show you a picture of a forged pass. They’ll explain that they’ve been chatting with so and so for months and often sending money. Most of these people are older men and women who are looking for someone they can connect with, only to get scammed out of their only savings.\""],"title":"Scams in the Sky","image":{"name":"wtbiyi58s0edgzaz.jpg","credit":"Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Labradawgz90: \"A guy I was dating who told me from the start he didn't want to ever get married again because he had been divorced once already. \nI accepted that. I told him from the start that at some point that I would break up with him because eventually, I would want to get married after I was finished my education and solid in my career. He was good with that. He proposed a little after a year.\""],"title":"Commitment Chronicles","image":{"name":"ar3m3hsnyug6vfhr.jpg","credit":"Photo by Nayeli Rosales on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/Deep-Beyond-2584: \"Used to work phones for Direct TV, a confused customer called in pretty upset because the NFL Sunday ticket was added to his account. Upset because he doesn’t watch formal…when I went through the notes it said he has called in to add it a few weeks ago, not his wife, he got even more angry. \nHe said he was visiting his parents that weekend and only his wife was home. I think it clicked for both of us right away what had happened. His wife was cheating on him and the dude ordered football while he was away.\""],"title":"Play Ball","image":{"name":"ok9cm41ynrz3gd32.jpg","credit":"Photo by Chris Chow on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/SuperConfused: \"My manager took a new opportunity and the director made me acting manager for 7 months with no bump in pay, and they told me they 'had to interview other candidates' but I would probably have it. They gave the position to an outside candidate and told me I was expected to train him. I knew they had invited a guy in for a second interview, so I started looking for another job. \nI had an offer in hand when they explained that I did not have the job. Told him that I hated to break it to him, but I had another job and I was putting in my notice, effective immediately. He was confused that I had been looking for another job, and was not gullible enough to swallow his [stuff].\""],"title":"Exit Strategy","image":{"name":"1g1z805i3vvhxyel.jpg","credit":"Photo by Studio Republic on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/SmashRadish: \"I was at a big music festival, having a drink with some kind babes. One of them mentioned how 'It’s so thoughtful that all the portapotties have purse holders so you can get yourself organized.' The guys looked at each other and a quick thinking guy asked her to describe what the purse holders looked like, thinking that maybe as dudes we didn’t notice them.\nShe described the purse holder. All the other dudes just wide-eye side-eyed each other until I had the courage to say 'I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you’ve been setting your purse down in a urinal for days.'\""],"title":"Messy Misunderstanding","image":{"name":"cyresu0g9eka457m.jpg","credit":"Photo by Aranxa Esteve on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":481},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/AEsurvivor: \"I lost a fair chunk of my memory after an Aquired Brain Injury. Every time I started talking about someone and my husband had to tell me that they had died. \nI think that would have to be one of his worst 'I hate to break it to you' moments. Especially because I wouldn't always remember it, and he would have to tell me again, bringing me to tears over and over again.\""],"title":"Repetitive Heartbreak","image":{"name":"5x6syaacfwp36tw0.jpg","credit":"Photo by Fa Barboza on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/miz_moon: \"Telling one of my friends ‘E’ that she needed to improve her personal hygiene. She had a [bad] home life and her priority at 15 was looking after her little sister and making sure that she was fed and clean and entertained because her mum had other priorities… \nSome of the girls at school had started saying ‘eww that smells worse than E’ whenever there was a bad smell and E, another friend and I overheard one of them in the toilets. She started crying and asked us if she smelled bad and we started crying too and had to tell her the truth.\""],"title":"Flushed Away","image":{"name":"w6dzelnqm4qzgq6x.jpg","credit":"Photo by Thanos Pal on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Previous-Atmosphere6: \"I had to explain to a good friend of mine that he was on a path to destroy himself with credit card debt paying only the minimum every month and spending freely. We walked through his books together and I showed him what interest had already accumulated and what it would be by the end of the year. He cried. \nTo his credit, he stopped spending, worked hard in a soul-sucking job for a few years, and got out of debt and moved on. He's now super financially responsible and I'm so proud of him. But that was a gut wrenching moment. His family growing up lived the same way and had never modeled or taught financial responsibility, and basically still live in debt and poverty.\""],"title":"Debit or Credit","image":{"name":"v0wgwcfphzu57326.jpg","credit":"Photo by Emil Kalibradov on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1078},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":599}}}},{"text":["

   U/DeliriousEdd: \"A week or two before my sister’s wedding, our uncle was hospitalized. When she had visited him, he said something about hoping to get released before the wedding so that he could attend. He didn’t, and while she was on her honeymoon he had passed away in the hospital. \nWhen she got back she called from the airport to have us pick her and her husband up. Since I was the one that answered the phone, I had to tell her that he had passed away. Not a fun situation.\""],"title":"Honeymoon Phase","image":{"name":"zm3v35wp00pkq5x5.jpg","credit":"Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/K3bravo: \"Had an employee of mine years ago that was convinced he was going to get a sweet overseas position working in Europe with our company. He was absolutely convinced that he was going to get the job even though he hadn't actually yet applied for it yet. He was on the internet looking at possible places to live in the city where this position was located when I had to break it to him that he never going to get the job. \nThe overseas position was promised to me several weeks earlier as a reward for handling an extremely difficult situation for nearly two years prior. The company was required to post the position internally per HR policy for everyone to see but they had already made the decision that it was my position if I wanted it.\""],"title":"Dream Job","image":{"name":"2kh2c9jdfggk82nt.jpg","credit":"Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   \"I'm an outdoor education instructor in Canada, but I work with a lot of Australian kids on holiday. I had one of them very sincerely tell me that Australia has the best music in the world. I asked who his favourite Aussie musician was. \nHe told me John Lennon. Unfortunately I had to break the news to him that not only is John Lennon not Aussie, neither are the other 3 Beatles. He was not happy about it.\""],"title":"Beatle Mania","image":{"name":"i00tw0hjhk6ku11u.jpg","credit":"Photo by KoolShooters/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/fuseboy: \"A relative was doing sudoku in the kitchen, just blasting through it. Number, number, number. Easy! I leaned over.. is that quite right? 'Yep, these are easy,' he replied. 'My friend explained the rules to me.' \nThere was a pause as my relative looked at the actual rules in small print in the newspaper. A beat passed, and he just threw down his pencil and walked out in disgust.\""],"title":"Number Game","image":{"name":"nxu2taq45nj18nin.jpg","credit":"Photo by John Morgan on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/DJ_Ambrose: \"Everyone has their own DMV horror stories, here’s mine with a little twist at the end. My license was due for renewal, The closest DMV was about forty five minutes away. I took the morning off, got up early, got there early, about a half hour early. Waited in line to get in, long story short, did all the paperwork filling out I needed to do, then waited about two hours to be called. \nWhen I got to the counter, the nice lady only said one thing to me: 'sir, your license doesn’t expire until the 31st of the month NEXT year' whoops. Total amount of time I wasted that day, about five hours.\""],"title":"Time Waster","image":{"name":"928slsxxgspepyze.jpg","credit":"Photo by why kei on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/BeardofValor: \"Car sales - someone comes in, they have worked the same job for many years, they never did anything 'wrong', they pay their bills or mostly pay their bills… can't get a loan. \nMe in my early 20s staring into the eyes of a man or woman 15 years from retirement to say 'you can't finance a car with us'.\""],"title":"Reality Check","image":{"name":"6ku3f0x66jaxpr56.jpg","credit":"Photo by Dillon Kydd on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/Altruistic-Car2880: \"My wife who hates to shop for anything needed new shoes for an upcoming trip. After weeks of delay, she called me excitedly and said she had found the most amazing shoes! 'They are so light, and have bottoms that make you feel like you’re floating!' \nOnce I got home, she did a runway show of her new shoes. 'I hate to tell you, but those are Golf shoes with rubber cleats for traction on the golf course…'\""],"title":"Fairway Fashion","image":{"name":"4rz9b9b2xfhk5em4.jpg","credit":"Photo by Morgan David de Lossy on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":719},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":399}}}},{"text":["

   U/Astyan06: \"First year in university, first english test. I was able to make a small group of friends and we were all sitting next to each other on two rows. One of the girls previously told us she was [bad] in English. \nHer copy came and she got super super happy because she scored 05/20. Had to tell her there was a small little point she didn't notice. Literally. Her grade was not 05/20. Her grade was 0.5/20.\""],"title":"Decimal Disaster","image":{"name":"40jv7hbm8909tqpt.jpg","credit":"Photo by Yustinus Tjiuwanda on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":960},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":533}}}}]}; window.__cf = (window.__cf || {}); window.__cf.nextArticleData = {"meta":{"id":"cms-11002","title":"40+ People Share Their Best \"I Told You So\" Moments","code":"toldy","category":"Gallery","subCategory":"Community","lang":"en","version":"shz","fullCode":"toldyenshz","lastTimePublished":"2024-05-22_14-11","createdAt":"2024-03-25T08:03:17.133Z","date":"2024-05-22","author":"Lauren A","nextArticle":{"id":"cms-10038"},"originalSite":"bobshideout.com"},"blocks":[{"text":["

   There are few things in life better than being right. Life can be hard, so who doesn't love an ego boast from time to time? It's just so satisfying relishing in the sweet vindication of being right. \nFrom outsmarting medical professionals to sticking it to bosses after being denied raises, these people took to Reddit to share their best \"I told you so\" moments. You won't believe these crazy stories!"],"image":{"name":"d1ea79jwrd5g69zt.jpg","credit":"Photo by Mubariz Mehdizadeh on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1279},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":711}}}},{"text":["

   U/drax3012: \"My roommate at the time always refused to take his keys whenever he left the house (despite me telling him not to do that), relying on the fact that I always had mine (our shifts ended around the same time so we would usually come home together). One day whilst we were both out I had to go back to my parent's house which was a couple hours away. \nAs I was pulling up to their drive, I get a call from him, stranded in the rain, outside our place without his keys. I told him that I wouldn't be returning until tomorrow and that there was nothing I could do. He ended up staying over at one of our friend's houses, but since then he's never left the house without his keys.\""],"title":"Key Lesson","image":{"name":"lnhx4c8xj32fh4eq.jpg","credit":"Photo by Maria Ziegler on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":541},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":300}}}},{"text":["

   U/Macropixi: \"When I was 14 I fell down a flight of stairs and messed up my knee badly enough that I had to have surgery on it. It was a day surgery, and when I came out of anesthesia I found myself groggy and sick to my stomach.\nThe attending nurse needed to get me up and ready to leave, but i really didn’t feel well. So she’s insisting that I sit up, and I’m protesting saying that if I move I will vomit. She made me sit up, telling me 'you won’t vomit.' I promptly puked all over her.\""],"title":"Anesthesia Upset","image":{"name":"ragyayujlywt06w2.jpg","credit":"Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/thecountnotthesaint: \"Told ex I was passing a kidney stone and needed to go to the ER/ urgent care. She told me to suck it up, and that it was just a bit of man flu.\nDespite the pain, my anger had me drive her and myself to the Urgent care, get a CT scan and have to doctor tell me that it was a 5mm kidney stone halfway to my bladder. The look on her face when he confirmed that I was right was worth the pain and agony.\""],"title":"Pain Proven","image":{"name":"z7kk4wq4vnwwj6zg.jpg","credit":"Photo by Accuray on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/scotty813: \"In the late 80s, I worked for my MiL as a regional manager of her business. I worked very long hours for $500/wk. At some point, I told her that I deserved a raise. She asked me how much I thought that I deserved and I replied that she couldn't replace me for less than $1000/wk. She responded that she was sure that she could, so I said, 'Fine - show me.'\nShe had trouble finding someone and finally had to pay the $1000. But after two weeks, he was totally incapable of doing what I did, so she had to split it into two regions and hire a second guy at $1000/wk. After 6 months, she discovered that they teamed up to imbezzle about $15,000. Of course, she never acknowledged to anyone - especially not me - that I was right and she f----- up badly…\""],"title":"Salary Standoff","image":{"name":"dg4v3r5is1xxpgpq.jpg","credit":"Photo by Viacheslav Bublyk on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/twelvesteprevenge: \"As a teacher, telling the head principal at my school that the way they were abusing the alternate assessment program to boost standardized test scores was not just a huge burden on teachers but also illegal and likely to attract the scrutiny of the state department of education.\nHe handed me a s----- assignment for the next year, I quit, and he ended up having to take that assignment (teaching 16 kids with emotional disorders across 3 grade levels in one classroom) for the first month and a half of the school year bc they couldn’t find anybody to take my place. I heard later that year that they came down hard on him for the scheme he’d concocted and ended up shutting down the alternative assessment program altogether. Told you so, DL.\""],"title":"Ethics Check","image":{"name":"ptjmab2w6kqbgtfr.jpg","credit":"Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":448},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":249}}}},{"text":["

   U/neelrak: \"When I was in high school (15 years ago) during a basketball game the coach pulled me out and berated me for not boxing out the opponent for a rebound. I did box her out and I knew it, so I talked back to him. We really got into it. That really ticked him off so I didn’t go back in the rest of the game.\nThe next Monday at school he pulled me into his office and said he watched the game film over the weekend and apologized because I did indeed box her out.\""],"title":"Rebound Reality","image":{"name":"m479bllc6rqhjzd7.jpg","credit":"Photo by Joel De Leon/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":477},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":265}}}},{"text":["

   U/Blue-Skye-: \"My dad had a rule that if he worked on the car we had to be with him, use the manual, and help. He gave me the manual the manual said it was the relay. I told him that. He said I read it wrong and didn’t follow the if this then this correctly. We replaced the battery, it didn’t start. We replaced the starter. It didn’t work. We replaced alternator, it didn’t work. \nWe went to the repair shop, they replaced the relay, it worked. I loved my Dad. I knew a bit more about cars and other household stuff than most girls. But mom and I still have a laugh over that story and and the clutch which is a whole other story.\""],"title":"Relay Revelation","image":{"name":"vdt9kqqh9ammix50.jpg","credit":"Photo by Kate Ibragimova on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":720},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":400}}}},{"text":["

   U/Twinner16: \"Dad was setting up one of those CRT rear-projection TV’s in the living room. I knew that the cable wasn’t coming through since he had the wrong channel on, so I went up to tell him and he started to yell at me to get out of the living room. \nI came back an hour later to see him still struggling with it. I walked up changed the channel and walked away. He was really mad that I got it to work.\""],"title":"Channel Savior","image":{"name":"7fevlue36gi8vn4w.jpg","credit":"Photo by Ajeet Mestry on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":977},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":543}}}},{"text":["

   U/SheepAcedia: \"This one happened recently. My dog has been chewing through his leash, and it was on the literal edge of breaking. I told my mom NOT to use that leash even though it's retractable, because its gonna break! I've been using the short thick leash, not retractable, because it's harder for the dog to chew through.\nMy mom used the leash, and guess what happened? It snapped. My mom had to close the gate once he got to the back yard, they were at the front, and I had to go outside in my fluffy pajamas to catch the dog. It rained outside recently, so the place was wet. Luckily, he didn't run out into the street, and it was at night.\""],"title":"Leash Warning","image":{"name":"usvp9j0kbig1v3vn.jpg","credit":"Photo by Bjorn Agerbeek on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":960},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":533}}}},{"text":["

   U/VoiceOfSoftware: \"My brother inherited a house, and decided to sell it to his friend. I told him it's important to make sure his friend goes through a bank, gets a loan, mortgage, all the normal things you would do when selling a house to a stranger. \nNope, because it was his friend, he just signed a quitclaim and had a handshake deal with the guy to pay monthly for 30 years. Guess who died a couple years later, and whose wife conveniently forgot the handshake deal? Friend's wife has a nice free house now.\""],"title":"Legal Lessons","image":{"name":"qu7p14gj3h9bjwgg.jpg","credit":"Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/AnotherRunningBack: \"I was hired on at an engineering firm that was entering a niche they knew nothing about. They hired a very junior engineer to design a system. He used metal far too thin in one load bearing application and I told them it would fail in 1-2 years of load cycling, posing a danger since it was carrying a 4000 pound load.\nIt failed around year 1.5. Nobody was hurt, but the watching the mental gymnastics of the engineers and management after that was pretty unreal. Most people have no integrity.\""],"title":"Thin Metal","image":{"name":"loo2a5k7q1wzab78.jpg","credit":"Photo by Headway on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Peemster99: \"When I lived in New Orleans I knew this insufferably pretentious goth chick from Ohio or someplace who was absolutely incapable of admitting she wasn't omniscient. She was fixing herself lunch and started blanketing it with Cayenne pepper and I warned her to watch out, since it really is spicy. \nShe rolled her eyes at me, added a bunch more, took one bite, ran into the bathroom to barf, and didn't talk to anyone for like 2 days.\""],"title":"Spicy Surprise","image":{"name":"bdxlbinn0s64cx7z.jpg","credit":"Photo by Shane Kong on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1025},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":570}}}},{"text":["

   U/LittleBitOdd: \"A big jar of sugar-free gummy sweets appeared in my office. Having already fought and lost a battle with sugar-free gummie bears, I wasn't going to touch them, but my manager loves those sorts of sweets. \nAs I like my manager, I warned her that sorbitol is a laxative, and she should practice extreme moderation. Sadly, she did not heed my warning, and spent most of the afternoon in the bathroom.\""],"title":"Gummy Caution","image":{"name":"kkj7fi4ngkqfzfbn.jpg","credit":"Photo by Dmitry Dreyer on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":900},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":500}}}},{"text":["

   U/fallouttoinfinity: \"Teacher here. Had district personnel doing walk thoughts in my room looking for student collaboration. One boy sits alone. They were upset he wasn’t sitting with a group. I told them 'he really cant.' to which they said 'I bet he can!'. I just looked at them and moved on. No more than 2 min later we are working out problems and I go to check his. \nHe made a computation mistake so I said 'student go check your multiplication! You made a mistake with your second partial product'. Kid looks at me, yells 'bro it ain’t wrong' and proceeds to flip his chair. I looked at the visitors and just shrugged my shoulders. Yes, this child is receiving behavioral services and it is recommended he sit away from peers due to outbursts.\""],"title":"Desk Dilemma","image":{"name":"5l2fc6e0fjq2bjni.jpg","credit":"Photo by Santi Vedrí on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/UnusualFerret836: \"Ex husband (then husband) had never had chicken pox as a child. I told him numerous times over the 13 years we were together he needs to get vaccinted, and that chicken pox as an adult can be really bad. He said he was fine, it would be ok.. ect excuse excuse ect After we had our first child he would just say 'yeah yeah… I'm gonna do it' but never actually did.\nFast forward 10 years, he catches chicken pox and it's very bad. Almost needs to be hospitalized. His new partner is pregnant and she's advised to leave the house while he is contagious. He cannot work for weeks. I gotta admit I really enjoyed that I told you so moment.\""],"title":"Playing Chicken","image":{"name":"d6e5xkz2whzumurc.jpg","credit":"Photo by cottonbro studio/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Astyinci: \"Random dude at a cafe comes up to me and asks why Im [talking to his] daughter (Me, male 34, a college professor, and his daughters professor for geometry) tries to explain the situation, that I was asking about her studies, and he starts berating me in-front of the whole cafe, I eventually leave, and go back home to have dinner with my wife.\nNext week, it’s a parent teacher conference as the man’s daughter has been getting into trouble with the campus security for a number of matters…her and her father come in to speak to me. The look on his face when he sees me on the other side of the desk is a mix of shock and terror in his face as he sees me is amazing.\""],"title":"Unexpected Reversal","image":{"name":"z03nikyctirp72ys.jpg","credit":"Photo by Antenna on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/No-Ice2179: \"I was in freight. I delivered a pallet that was supposed to have 750 pieces. It looked a little short so I asked the customer to count it. He refused three times after I explained to him if it was short they’re going to deny your claim. He said don’t worry. I said ok, & noted it on the paperwork that he refused to count. \nHe signed it. Two weeks later he called the customer service rep to report a shortage & make a claim. The customer service rep called me & asked did I remember it. I said yep, read the notes. She said 'oh, he refused to count it. Claim denied, thanks bye'. Lol\""],"title":"Count Refusal","image":{"name":"84cmwr9yroszr0a8.jpg","credit":"Photo by Lucas van Oort on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":481},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/steviestorms: \"My cousin, who is a single mother of three young children, wanted to travel halfway around the world to Dubai for a retreat/work experience with a 'spiritual leader'. Basically to work a month for free. I begged her not to go and she accused me of holding her back and said it was a rational decision (it wasn't). \nShe ended up not having enough money to travel. A few months later, she saw someone else share their poor experience (or rather, what they didn't share, after returning early and unfriending the guru). She was glad she didn't go, but still refuses to acknowledge anything else. Yes, I'm still salty.\""],"title":"Safety Sway","image":{"name":"5650x509tq0b8n2k.jpg","credit":"Photo by ZQ Lee on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/SmashNLaughs: \"Had a friend tell me she wanted to cheat on her fiancé. I told her no and that if she did there would be terrible consequences. She basically told me to f--- off and that her life was her own. About a month later I get a call from her saying how her fiancé had called off the wedding and demanded the ring back after he found her in bed with one of her coworkers.\nI wanted to be supportive and all, but cheating is a huge no-no in my book. So I simply said I told you so. She hasn't spoken to me since. On the plus side, her ex-fiancé has moved on and found the love of his life.\""],"title":"Cheating Consequence","image":{"name":"cdknc2nj4z7axnaw.jpg","credit":"Photo by Jackie Tsang on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/tuffmuff95: \"When I was 14, my dad fell into hole in our yard with just one leg. As I have just taken first aid classes, I told all of the grown-ups to call the ambulance because the leg that stayed outside of the hole got broken (they taught us how to recognize a break that didn’t go through the skin). \nThey all dismissed me and told me it was just a bruise. Well lo and behold my dad couldn’t stand on the leg and called an ambulance himself. Leg broken in 2 places. Go figure.\""],"title":"Leg-endary Pit-fall","image":{"name":"35dtopjiiesu9n1l.jpg","credit":"Photo by Caleb Oquendo/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/Reatona: \"At age 11 I was mowing the lawn when the mower engine started vibrating violently. I shut off the engine, went inside and told my dad, and he yelled at me to quit goofing off and get back to mowing. About five minutes later a nut dropped off one of the engine mount bolts and was blasted through the dining room window right next to where my mom was sitting. \nDad ran outside screaming 'you almost killed your mother!!!!!'. The rest of the family shamed him pretty thoroughly for not paying attention when I had tried to warn him.\""],"title":"Missed Warning ","image":{"name":"m74n8aa821fozf78.jpg","credit":"Photo by Craig Adderley/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Mardanis: \"I repeatedly insisted that we needed to measure a piece of equipment. The customer refused and did it themselves. Instructing us to do something else instead. The measurements are wrong. It cost them money to spend time measuring, fabrication and installion of two correctional clamps (one of which was wrong because they still wouldn't let us measure).\nIt cost them around $100k by trying to save an extra day of our time. If they had spoken to us upfront about it, we'd have fit in what they wanted us to do around the main job. Which we've done before with them at no extra.\""],"title":"Measure of Stubbornness","image":{"name":"m6f2z3fyig4xyevq.jpg","credit":"Photo by Alexander Dummer/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1079},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":599}}}},{"text":["

   U/kyojinn_: \"Me and my cousin study in the same university, and we live far from it. It was enrollment period for a new semester and I told her that everything will be done online. She insisted, saying that 'oh its gonna be the same as last time' (that 'last time' was when our university portal was out of service). \nShe travelled all the way to uni from our place, which is around 52km (32 miles, a 3-hour bus ride), only to be told that all enrollment actions are to be done online in the university portal. Made me chuckle when she told me about it when she got there l---.\""],"title":"Portal Proves Point","image":{"name":"v9hbutvj0llks0vx.jpg","credit":"Photo by Laura Stanley/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1079},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":599}}}},{"text":["

   U/BigBadZord: \"Everything I did, everywhere I went, all up for anyone to see on my FB. Years later I'm working as a audio tech with a few musicians, one who had become a pretty close friend. One artist in the band, who was talented but lazy as f--- tried calling me out, saying my contacts were b-------, I couldn't actually get them studio time, etc. and his 'proof' was that my entire FB profile, the one with posts from my entire family, was fake and I had never done any of the things I had photographic evidence of.\nCool. They dropped his a--, replaced him, and then used the contacts I actually had to record their album. That guy showed up at the album release party, where they personally thanked me during their set for all the people I introduced them to.\""],"title":"False Notes","image":{"name":"l0kpf7rqzlha34nf.jpg","credit":"Photo by Pixabay/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":523},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":290}}}},{"text":["

   U/berwood: \"I don't know about being the best 'I told you so' moment…but once me and my then-girlfriend were at the beach (in the Pacific Northwest) with her dog. She dropped the leash and let the dog run. I told her she should keep him restrained. He ran up towards a group of people and then veered off.\nI told her it was rude to let the dog run up on people and that she should keep the leash in her hand. The dog ran off into the woods and came back about two minutes later with a faceful of porcupine quills.\""],"title":"Quilled Caution","image":{"name":"dmihdi9p0xxl6lcd.jpg","credit":"Photo by Oscar Sutton on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1079},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":599}}}},{"text":["

   U/Disastrous_Salad5099: \"Got on shift at 7. One patient was doing terrible and needed immediate intervention. Told this to the doctor, who asked if it was a day shift problem. He didn't want to deal with all the charting and phone calls to family and walked away saying the patient was fine. \nAt midnight, a rapid response was called and this d------ finally called the patients family and we urgently intubated. A week later, I saw the patient leave the hospital, he was just fine now.\""],"title":"Shifted Responsibility, Saved","image":{"name":"f1q9p1x6g0inxvoj.jpg","credit":"Photo by Anna Shvets/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/SpecificRadio5268: \"Ain’t mine but a friends: So, he and his brother were outside, riding bikes, when there’s this big grassy hill that his brother starts going up, my friend tells him to not go up there (because it’d been rainy pretty heavily I’m guessing)..\nBut he doesn’t listen and rides up, then when he goes back down (my friend was retry vague with the details so this has some liberties). He rockets off the bike, and slams head first, right into the pavement.\""],"title":"Hillside Hindsight","image":{"name":"slksyq7l6jqu3fro.jpg","credit":"Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/KatarHero72: \"My former stepfather is a complete [jerk]. One day, we are eating dinner at the table. Now was I a picky eater at this point and kinda b-----? Yes. But when I'm sick I MEAN IT, cause Icnever get sick. But that night, we were having beef tips and rice, and about halfway through, I was just feeling awful and felt like if I ate another bite, I would puke.\nI said this. He got up and force-fed it to me, like a 13 year old at the time. I promptly blew chunks all over the kitchen table and the rest of what was on my plate. My mom did say, 'Well, he wasn't kidding,' and I weakly got an 'I told you so' in to a very displeased grunt from him. Hated that guy.\""],"title":"Beefing at Dinner","image":{"name":"merbfg9t0udmo15f.jpg","credit":"Photo by Mike Hsieh on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":467},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":259}}}},{"text":["

   U/HoselRockit: \"I had one client who was a real micro manager. We were going to meet with one of their teaming partners regarding some new business that they were going to pursue and I told them that there was too much detail in the draft pricing.\nI specifically pointed out one type of data and let them know that it is not normally shared with outside partners. They did not heed my advice and when we had the meeting it was derailed for 45 minutes over that data which they should never have seen the first place. The upside is they starting listening more closely to my advice.\""],"title":"Detail Derailment Lesson","image":{"name":"wm1otamv3clhgod4.jpg","credit":"Photo by Adetola Afolabi on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":904},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":502}}}},{"text":["

   U/Calixarene: \"While I was away at college, my car (that my parents demanded I leave at home) developed an intermittent problem. If I drove it at highway speeds, the next time I came to a complete stop it would stall, and it wouldn't start again until it had cooled down for about 10 min. Dad drove it around town once (not highway speed), failed to recreate the problem, and decided I was making things up.\nMy mother also didn't believe me until the Friday of Memorial Day weekend when she decided to drive the car to pick me up at school. It stalled on her inside the turnpike toll booth with a mile of angry holiday weekend traffic behind her. The booth worker jumped out and helped her push it out of the way. They believed me after that. (it was a solenoid in the transmission).\""],"title":"Highway Halt","image":{"name":"x8emx9qait1x9me7.jpg","credit":"Photo by Alok Sharma on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/RainbowsandCoffee966: \"My old boss has a 20 year old son. He told her one day his stomach was hurting and he thought something was wrong. She dismissed him and told him he just didn’t want to go to work and he probably had gas. He comes home after his shift and tells her again that his stomach still hurts. He told her he needed to go to urgent care. \nShe grumbles and takes him. She complains about wasting her time and that he just has a stomach ache. The doctor calls her into the exam room and tells her they are expecting them at the hospital. Turns out her son has appendicitis. The son tells the doctor his mom didn’t think there was anything wrong. Looks at her and 'told you so, Mom' She apologized and felt like the worst mother in the world.\"",""],"title":"Appendicitis Awakening","image":{"name":"53bunfv3n219cvlb.jpg","credit":"Photo by Magdiel Lagos on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/AnastasiaSheppard: \"Happened today for me. On Friday I told my company's finance team that their new process for paying refunds was going to cause complaints from our clients. They said that's just how their new process works, and it would be fine. \nOn Monday (today) I came in to multiple complaints from our clients about the refunds they received - they couldn't identify who or what they were for to pass them on to their customers. Had to straight up tell one client 'well, we don't know who this refund is for either, it could be A or B, you'll have to figure it out on your end unfortunately.'\""],"title":"Refund Ruckus ","image":{"name":"yc8zrwo30vkb8prh.jpg","credit":"Photo by Anna Shvets/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1080},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":600}}}},{"text":["

   U/fromtheashtree91: \"My ex was making popcorn and went to push the popcorn button on the microwave. I told him that the button is b------- and will burn the popcorn. He didn't believe me so we argued and finally I said just push the button and we'll see. \nSo we wait and I can smell the popcorn burning but I don't stop the microwave because I'm so mad. It eventually stop and he takes the bag out, there was a hole burnt into the bottom of the bag and the popcorn was very burnt. Then he got mad at me for not stopping the microwave. It took me forever to clean the microwave but it was worth it. We broke up soon after.\""],"title":"Burnt Out ","image":{"name":"2ydjz0hstc2zj398.jpg","credit":"Photo by Georgia Vagim on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":479},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":266}}}},{"text":["

   U/PuzzledDemand1276: \"A couple years ago when my dog was a puppy mother's boyfriend wouldn't believe me when I told them the dog learned how to get out the cage then proceeded to call me a lier, she had done so earlier and ate they're stuff. \nSo I left the room and went back to mine…..and she proceeded to do it again INFRONT of they're faces. Had my ear to the door with the smuggest face ever…\""],"title":"Escape Artist Vindicated","image":{"name":"cm7e7hob0d69fg9y.jpg","credit":"Photo by Dominika Roseclay/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":1026},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":570}}}},{"text":["

   U/Lachwen: \"Former coworker was getting divorced. She was getting divorced because her husband was a piece of s--- who it turned out had been cheating on her a bunch, including while she was pregnant with their youngest child. We all told her to get a divorce lawyer. \nShe kept saying she didn't need to because 'I can prove what he did.' Yes, he cheated, but in this state that has no legal bearing on who gets what in the divorce, get a lawyer. She did not get a lawyer. He did. Because he got a lawyer, he also got the house, the car, and most of the money in their joint bank account.\""],"title":"Legal Lesson Ignored","image":{"name":"y11ir8vklhqrkh76.jpg","credit":"Photo by Hunters Race on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   \"Ooooo yess, this just happened yesterday, so my dad was working on installing my bedroom door, when he chiseled the door to attach the hinge I told him, 'wait, you install the hinge in the wrong way, the door should be close from inside, not outside'.\nHe said with pride 'boy, ive been a carpenter for the last 30 years, there is no way im wrong' , guess whats happen next, yup, when we try to fit the door to the door frame he installed the hinge backward, ' I TOLD YOU ITS WRONG.'\""],"title":"Hinge of Humility","image":{"name":"67ppvxz07awk9m7a.jpg","credit":"Photo by Phil on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":518},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":288}}}},{"text":["

   U/Social-hunter: \"Grinning, I leaned back in my chair as the stock market plummeted, and my friends exchanged worried glances. For weeks, I'd been the nagging prophet, cautioning them about that risky investment. They rolled their eyes and brushed me off. Now, in the hushed aftermath of financial chaos, my warnings hung in the air like a vindicated victory. \nI couldn't resist a smug 'I told you so' glance. The room echoed with the unspoken acknowledgment that, just maybe, my crystal ball had been clearer than their blind optimism. Lesson learned: some of life's best moments come when the skeptics swallow a bitter dose of reality.\""],"title":"Profit Proof","image":{"name":"7fxfsocgx7sc5rvl.jpg","credit":"Photo by Nick Chong on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/ThickyMiniJiggy: \"My music teacher had auditions and my voice was ok but when I auditioned with him he told me my voice was terrible. I told him to not call me when I become popular. He became principal of the high school, I went on to develop my creative talents, guess who called me to perform at the 10 year reunion after seeing one of my small shows online.\nI didn’t even go and apparently the band canceled last minute and they didn’t have any music at the reunion. It was a giant flop I got to read about all over facebook with popcorn.\""],"title":"Reunion Performance","image":{"name":"i6735wgiiumcix6w.jpg","credit":"Photo by John Matychuk on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Puzzleheaded-Bad-147: \"My best friend is kinda gullible when it comes to internet safety and uses his actual name as his user on a lot of accounts (PSN, Steam etc.) and I told him that he should change them or at least enable 2FA before he gets hacked or something.\nBut him being the same guy I told to not run around a yard with a fractured arm and he did anyways, just left his accs like they were. Yeah he ended up getting his PSN password changed and almost lost everything.\""],"title":"Hacked","image":{"name":"qc92vz1p1ze0gqd4.jpg","credit":"Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":481},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Hippopotasaurus-Rex: \"Ex boss, who I was not fond of, had a vehicle he wanted to sell. He met someone who wanted to make payments on it but take possession when they made the first payment. I told him not to do it. I said it was almost certain they will crash the car, and then just stop paying, and he’ll be left with a damaged car and no money. He told me I was dumb and went ahead with the deal. Ok. Whatever you say.\nFor a couple months things were good and he was pretty smug. Then he comes in one day and tells me to research what happens if the above scenario happens, and the car was in a tow yard collecting fees. He wanted to know if he was responsible for the fees. I didn’t even look up. Yup. If you want the car back you are.\""],"title":"Crash Course in Caution","image":{"name":"7y2dcocx15bi3s6u.jpg","credit":"Photo by Jonathan Reynaga/Pexels","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/FoxtrotSierraTango: \"Coworker wants to streamline our security groups at work. I say we can't do it without considerable testing because they were set up years ago with no documentation. We don't know what group is driving access to what resource. Coworker goes over my head and I am instructed to make the changes.\nWithin hours things break and I have to start playing wack a mole fixing all the random broken things. I was incredibly smug in our review meeting where I was able to point to my e-mails noting this exact reservation and how a more methodical method would have helped. Coworker at least learned to accept an opposing consensus without escalating.\""],"title":"Streamlining Snafus","image":{"name":"9bvkyubigo9mpuxc.jpg","credit":"Photo by ahmad kanbar on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Angelisaurus: \"I worked at a fairly busy gas station/convenience store, closing shift. My boss at the time only ever scheduled a couple people to get everything done before close, and was always mystified when it inevitably wasn't due to the sheer customer volume. I told him time and time again we needed more night staff. He goes, 'Look, I'll show you the exact staffing recommendations per our company's metrics, and you'll see we're right in line for our needs.'…and we both fall silent when we see, for our store, we were recommended a full five people right up until close. \nI just looked at him like…Didn't say a word. He kind of awkwardly balked for a moment going, 'Oh, uh, it says…huh.' To his credit, he did make efforts to put more people on at night, but there were rarely enough bodies to go around. Still, it was nice to have the validation.\""],"title":"Understaffed Understanding","image":{"name":"wzmhd3mdhtzatfye.jpg","credit":"Photo by Diego Carneiro on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":540},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":300}}}},{"text":["

   U/WorldWideWig: \"I warned my partner that I neither liked nor trusted a friend/colleague of his, and gave a detailed list of things that said friend had said or did that rang my alarm bells regarding his arrogance and trustworthiness. My partner brushed it off saying I'm too sensitive and slightly biased. \nFirst chance this guy got, he inflated his abilities and experience in a way that caused an internal company crisis and could get him fired. My partner had a quiet word with him to try to warn him he was making a huge mistake and, in return, got belittled and gaslit in a lengthy blame-shifting message that ended with a jaunty 'Let's agree to disagree. When are we going for b----?'.\""],"title":"Friendship Folly Forewarned","image":{"name":"8hk3j2uycmvoizqn.jpg","credit":"Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/RainbowsandCoffee966: \"The roof on my grandparent’s house was starting to look bad. To the point that when a guy in their neighborhood would come by to do odd jobs, Grandpa would have him sweep off the roof, and bits of shingles would be on the ground. I kept telling him the house needed a new roof, but he would tell me I didn’t know what I was talking about.\nGuess what? The roof was deteriorated and there was water damage. So a simple roof replacement turned into water damage repair and a new roof. Grandpa sighed, looked at me and said 'Go ahead and say it'. I said 'I told you so. Now, when I say something like this, I hope you will take me seriously'. Grandma piped up and 'Oh sweetheart, I’ll make sure he does!'\""],"title":"Roof Reality Check","image":{"name":"xgx8f81lrhc9jbr7.jpg","credit":"Photo by yerling villalobos on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/slowpoke257: \"One time when my kids were little, I took them apple picking and then stopped at the supermarket with them to pick up a few things. My daughter was still working on an apple when we got in line to pay. A woman behind me said, I hope she's enjoying that apple, because all of us other customers are paying for it. And she said, when you steal, the rest of us are paying for it. I told her that we'd just come from apple picking, and she made a face indicating that I was full of it.\nI paid, went out to my car, and got the kids buckled in. As I was loading the groceries in the trunk, this same woman came out. She was parked right next to us. I pulled the bag of apples out of the trunk to show her and said, Here you go. I want you to appreciate what an a-- you just made of yourself.\""],"title":"Apple Accusation ","image":{"name":"x8xi9dtxj22m4ms5.jpg","credit":"Photo by James Yarema on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":540},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":300}}}},{"text":["

   U/sebrebc: \"Body shop manager was writing estimates on vehicles, ordering parts, and letting the customer take the vehicle to return at a later date. I don't like pre-ordering parts because there are too many risks. This went on for months while pre-ordered parts were piling up. I kept bringing it up to our GM and the body shop manager. Telling him many of these parts had been sitting there so long they were beyond their return window. They didn't care…\nFlash forward a few more months and the body shop manager quit. New body shop manager starts calling these customers to get them to come in. Many had their vehicles repaired elsewhere due to us never getting back with them. Some were involved in another wreck totaling them, some were traded in or sold. Body shop had to write off tens of thousands of dollars. Should have listened to me in the first place.\""],"title":"Costly Lesson","image":{"name":"dk2fhg4d6hk7utjo.jpg","credit":"Photo by Laurel and Michael Evans on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/Foreign-Ad-1850: \"Mother died, father got lonely living 150km away and in remote bushland 30km from nearest town, but wouldn't visit or move closer to other people. Got onto dating site and was syphoned off onto China love dot com. Found a 60yo babe on the website and was paying for each chat back and forth for 'translation'.\nTold us about her proudly and said he was going to China for 6wks to meet her. We all told him it was a scam. He didn't believe us and headed off only to come back 6wks later with an old crusty 65yo Chinese woman who he married straight away. She then spent the next couple of yrs getting her family out here and is now fleecing him rotten. Too embarrassed to admit he stuffed up and will let her fleece him till he has nothing left.\""],"title":"Love's Costly Click","image":{"name":"ohfb9qpjlhsqjgms.jpg","credit":"Photo by Rana Sawalha on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":481},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

   U/auntiepink007: \"When my dad was at my first place for the first time, he was busy doing things and took off his outer layer. When he came in, I asked him if he wanted his hoodie but he declined and sat down. \nNot ten minutes later, he complained that he was cold and told me to turn the heat up. I was laughing so hard I could barely get the words out but I told him to put his sweatshirt back on. That was very satisfying!\""],"title":"Regretful Decision ","image":{"name":"843tahibs2gm4qxw.jpg","credit":"Photo by Brian Lundquist on Unsplash","dimensions":{"desktop":{"width":720,"height":480},"mobile":{"width":400,"height":267}}}},{"text":["

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