Sunday, March 20, 2022

Funny, Absurd and Miserable Signs That Came From Earth


Sometimes we're blown away by what some people think needs to be committed to writing. You'll just be walking into work one day, and on the fridge, someone has taken the liberty to post in 128 point font "We know it was you, Lisa." Your first assumption will likely be something like "well, I'm not Lisa, so I don't have to worry about that part." But the rest of it becomes a mystery that's simply too delicious to put down. What kind of shenanigans did Lisa get up to? And is the original poster correct in their assertion that is was in fact Lisa who did "it."

These kinds of things happen every single day, and luckily, as people living on this planet, we get to walk right into the middle of someone's sign war and ask ourselves who's being more unreasonable. No one's really being hurt, as long as they're not as threatening as creepy signs that make their message clear.

Here are some more funny signs from all over this world.

Customer Gets Screwed Over By Dealership, Gets Justice When Management Finds Out


Car trouble is a hassle even when everyone involved actually wants to resolve the issue. But when a dealership does everything it can to make the process as difficult as possible, things can quickly spiral into nightmare territory. That's where this person found themselves after being told that they didn't have the guts or the funds to sue the dealership over their assery.

That's the weird thing about disputes in the neighborhood of a few hundred bucks. It's a game of chicken between who wants to get the law involved. It's a non-trivial amount of money that would be painful to lose, but it's also not enough to ruin your life over. Luckily the internet is full of information about how to take things to small claims court.

They had a pretty good case put together, but it was the Deus Ex Machina of power suit lady who set things straight.

For a cartoonish tale of transactional glory, here's the employee who pulled a reversal on a customer's coin revenge by counting it all out.

Woman Can't Handle Fiancé's Giant Python and Unleashes It Upon the World, Gets Sent Packing


Trouble has emerged between this Reddit user and his fiancée following a disagreement the couple had over his penchant for creepy crawlies. 

User u/Warm-Art-378 posted this story to the r/AmItheAsshole subreddit asking for advice from users regarding the disagreement. He was wondering if he was in the wrong for his reaction to the incident. Essentially, what had happened was his fiancée had taken issue with a ball python that u/Warm-Art-378 had acquired shortly before she was due to move in with him. He had to slowly acclimate her to the snake but noted that by the time she had warmed up to it she had thought it was "really cool."

Apparently, this wasn't actually so, because when u/Warm-Art-378 arrived back from an out-of-town work trip he arrived home to find the snake missing. Inquiry revealed that his fiancée had betrayed his trust and let it loose outside. 

The betrayal of trust is a major issue here, but even larger still is the effect on the ecosystem that the release of pets into a foreign environment can have. This is, after all, how the Burmese Python ended up establishing itself in Florida. There have been other notable introductions of invasive species to ecosystems in this exact manner.

It is also incredibly cruel to the animal itself and that alone is cause to send her packing. Do you really want to have someone in your life who is capable of hurting a living creature?

Thumbnail Image: David Clode

In Defeat at the Deceit, Daughter Watches Dead-Beat Friend Eat Mom's Elite Sweet Birthday Treat


The damning evidence in this deceit is quite concrete. It is incontrovertible. There is no neat for the jury to retire. In all my years of judging, I have never heard before of someone more deserving of the full penalty of law. 

With food available in such an abundance these days, it's hard to rationalize how this could happen. I could order McDonald's on Uber Eats right now, and it would be here in 5 minutes if I couldn't be assed to consider or prepare any other options. And with Uber Eats available in 6,000 cities and 45 countries, I find it pretty hard to believe this wasn't an option in most major populaces in the western world. This isn't an ad for Uber Eats, so please, god, don't flame me for that in the comments. I'm just in dire need of something to eat. Good thing I have all these baked goods my friend made for her mother's birthday here and ready to go.

Asides aside, this thread was posted to the r/AmItheA**hole subreddit this week by Redditor u/BigPower6749, where it has received 10k upvotes. Commenters are horrified at the friend's audacity and utter incompetence; how could they have thought eating all of those treats was ok?

Oh, and be sure to like, subscribe and check out Uber EatsTM.

TV Repairman Pulls a Sneaky On Indecisive Customer, "Fixes" Their TV


Problem-solving is a process. But the first, often most difficult part of problem-solving is actually identifying the problem itself. Sometimes the issue is just in a person's imagination, and you're beholden to their questionable opinion in order to "solve" that "problem."

Such is the case with this story of a TV repairman who had a client with a dubious issue. According to her, things just didn't look right. Other than that, there were no real problems to speak of. So what do you do when a problem has been completely invented? Well, this guy went and invented his own solution. This guy was able to make a customer happy with the magical powers of "just making something up." It's a simple solution, but it takes guts to pull off correctly.

For another trial and tribulation of the proud repairman, here's an entitled goofball who called the cops on an emergency pipe repairman and found himself arrested.