It's the First Week of October and the Halloween Memes and Tweets Have Arrived

It's Spooky Season, Hocus Pocus 2 is streaming now, and all is right in the world!

 

These memes and tweets will get you in the mood for what will surely feel like a month-long buildup to one night where you're simply too old to do the central activity of Trick or Treating. Instead, you'll likely spend ACTUAL Halloween night annoyed by all the noise from the children outside as you binge eat your bag of candy corn before the kids arrive at your place. 

 

Yet here we are, searching for something to get excited about, and because it's October now and the weather has changed, Halloween will be our source of temporary joy. I'd say that Thanksgiving would be next but that "holiday" often involves large family gatherings and therefore is more of a punishment than anything else. 

 

But before we get too bleak, keep scrolling below for these memes and tweets. For more fall content, check out these autumn fails!

'Her grades matter more than her pain': Mom dismisses daughter's injuries from a car accident as justification for low grades

This mother refused to take her daughter's pain seriously after a traumatic car accident and only started to notice something was up after her grades began to slip. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit by u/EbbApprehensive1470, who deserves an award for the amount of self-awareness she lacks.

 

We wish we could say we were surprised by this behavior. Helicopter Moms prioritize grades above all else, especially during junior year of high school. What's worse, though, is how dismissive she was of her daughter's pain and how ignorant she chose to be with regard to long-standing chronic pain after an accident like that. It's remarkable that this woman actually sat down and wrote all these facts without thinking to self-reflect and recognize her role in all this. She seemed to genuinely think, "Well, Reddit will agree with me on this," and let's just say that Reddit did not. One comment even questioned if any of this was real based on how ridiculous this mother was acting.

 

For more family drama, check out this story about an entitled Karen with seven kids. Keep scrolling below for the full post and the best comments!

Unreasonable Elderly Neighbor Phones Police Over Teen Movie Marathon, Has Her Nap-time Cancelled

There's nothing worse than a noisy neighbor, but there's also nothing worse than a nosy neighbor who has absolutely zero damn tolerance for people just trying to live out a normal, uneventful existence. There's no reason why a few teenagers watching a movie should result in a call to the police… Unless that movie is incessantly loud and extends into unreasonable hours through a shared wall or other close proximity living.

That being said…With every passing year, I find myself becoming more and more of the latter, and find myself growing into the crotchety old man that I was always destined to be.

As an example, every afternoon at precisely 4 pm, my neighbor arrives home from picking her kids up at school. The entire family then engages in an ordeal of utter cacophony that I have dubbed "The Barkening." The (probably exhausted) mother exiles her many offspring, plus the family dog, into the backyard (which is adjacent to mine), where they then bounce on their trampoline while screaming at the top of their lungs. The dog then gets excited and begins incessantly barking at the children, whom he cannot reach on top of the trampoline. Soon, the silence has evaporated, and all that can be heard in the neighborhood for the next 30 minutes is a jumbled mess of screaming, barking, and the rhythmic squeaks of the trampoline springs. Queue me, scowling out my office window with my hands on my hips and craning my neck like I'm Mrs. Kravitz from Bewitched.

The thing is, they're just a family trying to live their lives. Despite my annoyance at the ear-spitting ritual, I know I am being unreasonable for caring as much as I do. Sure, they could probably do something about the dog barking, but at the end of the day, they're picture-perfect neighbors otherwise, getting the police involved over such a minor thing would be insane.

Anyways, I digress, keep reading for this tale of revenge on an ornery old neighbor, executed by an equally cantankerous father.

 

'Get off your butt!': Restaurant blames lazy community for their own struggle to find workers

The "Great Resignation" has turned the workforce on its head. The experience of the waning pandemic gave a lot of workers the time and headspace to reflect on their working situations and reevaluate if it was what they wanted or if they wanted to seek greener pastures. 

 

'I am not quite finished with him yet': Hotel employee gets massive revenge on entitled guest

This hotel employee concocted the most elaborate revenge plot on an awful, entitled guest! I would never want to get on this person's bad side.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit by u/Ancient_Ice, who broke down exactly how they pulled this off. The Redditor knew this guest had been treating the hotel employees incredibly poorly, but the last straw was when he made two of their young coworkers cry. And that's when the original poster started investigating contacting his employer and his rewards membership. 

 

The other wild thing about this guy is that he himself is a hotel employee, so he is fully aware of what these guests go through day after day and yet chooses to make life harder for them anyway. That's a special breed of human right there. Someone who thinks, "Well, I suffered and now the tables have turned." That extra spin on the "pay your dues" mentality is so toxic it just goes to show how the hierarchy of customer service is like a monster that cannot be stopped. 

 

For more content like this, take a look at these customer service memes. Keep scrolling below for the full story!

Boyfriend's Parents Lose Their Minds, Offended Over Being Served Pizza After Dropping by For Dinner Unannounced

What in the pepperoni gorgonzola is this? Taking offense to pizza? There's only one situation in which you should take offense to being served pizza, and that's when it has pineapple on it. Do Italians really get offended about being served pizza? That's like an American getting offended over a hamburger or an Englishman throwing his toys over a being handed a plate of bangers and mash. 

The audacity of these people… Who decides to "stop by" for dinner? Only then to be offended by what is on offer. Commenters suggested that the parents would have found something to get offended about no matter what was served, which looks pretty likely.

Having guests over for dinner can be an absolute delight and is one of the cornerstones of fostering adult friendships. Still, cooking a full meal for others can be burdensome, so it isn't polite to turn up uninvited expecting a meal; That is unless you're a company of dwarves planning an expedition to retake your ancestral homeland from a dragon. Even if Bilbo had served Thorin and company some pizzas, he would have been perfectly justified in doing so.

Tragically Funny Fails And Funny Moments We've Seen In Construction This Week

We don't know about ya'll, but sometimes construction work can make ya wanna rip your eyes right out of their sockets, and not in the classic Halloween movie 'Don't Breathe' style, but rather in the 'Why are people so unceasingly stupid' kind of way.
This generation sure can be exhausting, and we hate TikTok as much as the next normal person… yet in all honesty, we gotta say that half of the content we find on there makes scrolling through the other half of mindless garbage worth it. 
And these videos made even the best of us relate hard.
So whether your apprentice doesn't know his sh*t, or you're testing out just how soundproof the room you've just built is (hint, there's screaming involved), there's something here for everyone.
After seeing these, you'll probably have facial cramps from eye-rolling and laughing, but as long as the eagle sh*ts on Friday, we're good.