Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Surprising Truths About People That Sound Made Up


There is a whole lot of chaos and unpredictability bubbling underneath the surface of every moment, and we can forget that people experience stuff all the time that shatters expectations of what we assumed was possible. The world is a strange place, and sometimes folks with the craziest stories are actually telling the truth. We'll probably still laugh and shrug it off, but maybe there's a lingering doubt in the back of the head that what they said had some strange scent of the truth to it. 

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Text - Kaibethha • 17h 1 Award A horse threw me in the air when I was a child. But I wasn't on his back. He grabbed the skin of my back with his teeth and yeeted me.

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Text - testbotV1 • 18h I never graduated high school but I have a bachelor's degree. I was homeschooled and my mom never went through the legal steps to actually get me a real diploma, so she made one in photoshop that was then used to get me into this podunk community college that didn't verify it. From there I got my associate's degree, which I then used to get into a decent university where I got my bachelor's

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Text - _slamallama_ • 17h 1 Award I was once sponsored by the CRUNK energy drink company for sailing. I imagine I was the only sailor on their list. I literally just emailed them saying that I sailed and asked if they wanted me to put stickers on my boat. They sent me a few cases of the drink, t shirts, hats, the works. My car was known as the crunk-mobile.

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Text - youngthugsmom • 16h 3 Awards I was at a store when Tony Hawk was signing autographs. I was only 10 at the time and was a huge fan. One of his early video games had just come out. The store had a couple tv's on the wall and some video games to play. Being a kid I waited for one controller to open up and someone leave. A kid ended up leaving and I grabbed the controller and started playing and minding my own business. A couple minutes later the store wanted to grab photos of Tony playing hi

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Text - 74.2k 34.3k 1 Share My great grandfather worked in the textile business and started importing rayon fabric from Japan in the late 60s and 70s. Keep in mind this was during the early days of synthetic fabrics and travelling to Japan was not all that common. On a business trip, he met some Japanese business men who were selling newly designed transistor radios. His contacts wanted to setup an exclusive import agreement for their electronics to North America, but my great grandfather decline

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Text - On the other side of my family, my Canadian relatives walked away from 100 acres of land in Alberta during the dust bowl and great depression. They decided it was not worth paying the taxes on their land. Turns out that land was right in the heart of the Alberta oil deposits. Also on my mother's side of the family, they used to have a citrus orchard near Los Angeles. They sold it cheap to some land developers. That farm was right at Hollywood and Vine. My family on both sides is bad at se

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Text - piggybank124 • 18h 1 Award Once in college I applied for a job at the library help desk. I figured I would help people find books. Didn't give it much more thought than that. During the interview, I aced all of the customer service questions. Then they asked me whether I knew how to defrag a hard drive. Cue alarm bells in my head, but I kept calm outwardly and said no, but you can teach me. I worked in IT for three years by accident. They were too nice to fire me.

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Text - Waterboardyourkids • 19h Spent a really cool day in London with Christian Slater and his mum. His mum is adorable.

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Text - aoyfas • 17h I found out my "father" wasnt my biological father in 10th grade Biology class. We were learning about blood types and traits. Traised my hand thinking I was a smart ass, "You're chart isnt accurate, my dad has AB negative and l'm O positive." My teacher said "I think your mom has some explaining to do!". And we all chuckled. Turned out, he was not my father.

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Text - chandlrs • 20h My grandpa left his royal status to marry my grandma.

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Text - ravenpotter3 • 19h One of my ancestors was dumb and bought one of Napoleon's doorknobs. It turns out it's fake. Doorknobs were invented after Napoleon died.

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Text - Crazyviclol • 19h F1 Award I got hernia by sneezing too hard.

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Text - thisisdavecass • 19h I once won a $500 raffle during a routine visit to my local tea shop. It was the building's annual Black Friday event and there were 5 baskets with varying amounts of goods, services, and coupons. I needed tea, so my only stop was the tea shop. It cost me $20 to fill my tins, but they said raffle tickets were given out after a $25 purchase. I said 'fuck it' and got a hot tea for me and the woman in line behind me. Entered with that one ticket. I got a call a few days

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Text - SimmerSassenach • 19h 3 1 Award My great great grandfather was a Pinkerton Detective, acted on Vaudeville, and had 5 wives in 2 different states that knew nothing of each other. He also slightly changed his last name each time and never got caught until Ancestry website happened lol

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Text - rawrberry_ • 19h W 1 Award I have won an actual WWE match. edit: For everyone that is asking. l did not have a stage name. It was a one time deal. It was during the 2006 Tribute to the Troops. The guy I faced was Chris Masters.

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Text - SpaceManBalls83 • 19h At age 50 odd and with limited to no video game experience, my mother completed Mario64 before I did, in about half the time it finally took me to do it.

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Text - Sirnando138 • 19h 9 Awards I bought a guitar amp from Brad Whitford, of Aerosmith, when I was 17. He and Steven Tyler served up cheeseburgers for me and my friends. Edit: as requested: So, Brad's son was a punk and I knew him from the scene. I was in a band that had some small local marginal success. This is 97/98 in Boston. I needed a new amp for our first US tour but had very little money. I was getting drunk with his son and, on a whim, I asked him if his dad had any amps laying around

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Text - We get to his house and it's totally him. So weird. These guys were like gods in Boston. I wasn't the hugest fan but knew him from his work with Wayne's World. He takes me to (one of) his garage(s) where there is this cool full stack. The brand is Bedrock. An old company from New Hampshire that made good quality amps in the 80's. This one was custom made for Brad. Basically Marshall components. 4 tubes. All the knobs go to 11. Not kidding. Still has the "property of Aerosmith" stickers on

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Text - This is where shit gets nuts. It's just like you expect. Tons of gold records, platinum records...Pictures of him with people like John Lennon, Robert DeNiro and Joey Ramone. Then we get to see his studio and THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF MARSHALL AMPS IN THE WORLD. Seriously, like 200 cabs. A wall of guitars. Guitars so pretty and amps so cool, it made sense for him to find the one he sold me dispensable.

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Text - After the house tour, he told us to meet him at the little bar and grill they own in town. When we get there early and he arrives 30 mins later with muthafuckin Steven Tyler in tow. "You guys the punk group?!" He was so nice. They went in the back and came out with burgers for us all on the house. Then they straight up left. Irish goodbyed, even! I still have the amp. I used it on the road for almost 10 years in five bands. Now, it's just a conversation piece. But it still works! I'll cra

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Guitar amplifier - BEDROCK BEDROCK

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Electronics - HM 16 OHM FX IN EX O PROPERTY OF AEROSMITH 10513 SIN Made in NASHUA NH USAy BEDROCK MOSIC

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Text - drhotdog • 17h 4 Awards When I was a kid, I woke up to find my cat giving birth to her kittens on my pillow, one inch from my face. I took it as a compliment.

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Text - Tortion • 19h I have phytophotodermatitis, which is a big fancy word for I can't get acidic juices (lemons, limes, apples, oranges, etc) on my skin and go out in the sun. Turns my skin brown like a rash. Doesn't hurt or itch, just discoloration. Happened three or four times in my life.

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Text - Ignatz27 • 19h 2 Awards I won two TV game shows. "The $10,000 Pyramid" (won $10,300) in 1975, and "Sale of the Century" (was on the show for 9 days; won $34k in cash and prizes) in '85.

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Text - leaky_eddie • 19h W 2 Awards I ran out of gas outside of La Paz Bolivia. Luckily it was down hill for about 6km into the city. I coasted the whole way on my motorbike, passed busses and drifted into a gas station. Never missed a beat!

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Text - OxMii • 19h O 1 Award I cannot see 3D effects in movies or games. I didn't know that until a friend showed me his new Nintendo 3DS and I asked him whether this thing was a scam because it didn't look any different to me than a normal DS. We had a fight over this because we both thought the other one was bullshitting him. "You're holding it wrong! How the fuck do you not see this?" "Are you fucking kidding me right now? There's nothing 3D about this thing."

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Text - Saltynole • 19h 1 Award Grandma did genealogy of my family and proved we're related to Edgar Allan Poe

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Text - Odineye • 17h I was a rocket scientist I worked on the 114-AGM. The science was 'verifying' rocket bodies. The back bone of science is to repeat experiments. My job was to make sure we were gonna get the same result every time. People call me a liar all the time because the idea of a 'rocket scientist' is Von Bruan.

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Text - RainbowHoodieGang • 17h I built a 13 foot tall t rex with Christopher Walken's head, and New York magazine called it high brow and brilliant

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Text - EchoPerson14• 19h I can't drink the red Gatorade. This isn't super uncommon but the red dye makes me nauseous and freak out. The funny thing is I used to drink it all the time without a problem, but one year I started feeling weird and sick all the time, and I stopped. It definitely helped, and I don't drink it. I tried it again a little while ago. Still nope.

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Text - ecofreckle • 15h My dad's name is Luigi and my uncle's name is Mario. They are brothers. ETA: I forgot to add that my dad is also a plumber.

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Text - sadsolocup • 20h I have ridden a bicycle 100,000 miles (~161,000 kilometers)

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Text - success10 • 19h I completed GTA San Andreas in 3 days. I never slept, eat nor shit.

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