Monday, August 10, 2020

Truck Stop Employees' Most Bizarre Stories


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about truck stop and interstate employees' most bizarre stories from their days on the job. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that those long, winding, dark roads are filled to the brim with all kinds of unexpected characters. Truck stop employees can really be put through the rounder. As will happen in these kinds of threads, we've got plenty of accounts from people that didn't work at truck stops, but were just passing through. That story about the mayfly hatch madness is something else. 

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Text - Neeraja_Kalrapindhi • 9h 1 Award Not an employee, but a frequent cross-country traveler. Weirdest was pulling up to a truckstop to fill up in southeastern South Dakota during the height of the mayfly hatch, millions of bugs all over. I started filling up and was getting ready to clean my windshield and I happened to look over across the way and there was some dude driving a big box truck in the diesel fueling area. He was scraping them off the front of his truck...and eating them by the h

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Text - PurplePoppy12345 • 6h Years ago when i was a kid we were travelling with my mum, her best friend and my sisters. We were pretty tired and pulled into a truck stop for some food and bathroom break. We walk in my mum asks a guy where the bathrooms were he points us in the right direction and off we toddle. We come out, take a seat and wait for the waitress to come take our order, she seems to be taking awhile but we figure she's probably busy and will come when she can. eventually she comes

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Text - LaxerRL • 7h 1 Award I didn't work there but I was at a truck stop in West Virginia where a very fat trucker was trying to buy a Twix bar from the vending machine. He paid for it but the bar got stuck on the last loop of the dispenser. So the trucker starts shaking the machine (don't try this ever) and it comes toppling down onto his legs, pinning him to the floor. "Ah fuck" he says nonchalantly. Everyone hears the crash and comes rushing over to help while a worker calls 911. It's at thi

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Text - SaviorSixtySix • 12h Not one anymore, but when I was a maintenance worker for a truck stop, I got a call over the radio saying there were two women in the parking lot covered in chocolate. I thought, "well, as long and they don't come into the store." I went outside to find two women, completely naked, covered in a brown substance (I hoped to God it was chocolate). The sheriff was called and apparently, they were both completely sober. They were there for a sorority thing. They were issue

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Text - Wick0158 • 7h I worked at a gas station/truck stop for over a year in high school. I have lots of stories. So, one time l'm closing up the station. I was starting to count the till, before I turn on the security system and leave. I've got a wad of twenties when 4 cop cars come ripping into our lot. I run to the windows, 2 cops go to the back and the other 2 position at the corners where it's hard to see them through the windows. Now, I'm an idiot high schooler, so l'm trying to look out t

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Text - They were nice but clearly frustrated that I set off the alarm. I tell them 4-5 times that the alarm was not set, but they insist that l'm wrong and that they had a clear security report. Sol took them to the panel, verified it was off. Then my smarts kick in. "Hey guys, what address was the alarm for?" "303 Baker. Why?" "That's not our address. That's ABC supply a block north". They moved quickly to that business. I heard later that the safe was taken from that supply store. Reply 636 ..

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Text - nathanj594 • 11h I'm not an employee but I once witnessed a squirrel run into the women's room (it was one of those outdoor rest area bathrooms with no door that you turn into the building around a corner) and then like 20 women come out running for their lives and screaming 10 seconds later. It was like something out of a movie Reply 574

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Text - Ellijah92 · 7h 1 Award Not an employee of one but a friend of mine from highschool and I were cruising the back roads of our town and having a good time listening to music and just cruising. We decided to stop off at the truck stop in one of the towns we had ended up in and get some food and drinks. Suddenly she comes up to me excited and freaking out. I ask her whats wrong and she tells me she just seen Lance Bass of *NSYNC go into the men's restroom. I tell her I honestly doubt that con

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Text - FastWalkingShortGuy • 12h Not an employee, but once at a rest stop in North Carolina, a dude came up to me and asked me for gas money. This was is 2003, and I was driving a 1994 Saturn. He said, "Hey, man, I can tell by your car you don't have a lot of money, but can you spare a couple of bucks for gas?" Неу. Fuck you, man. I didn't give him any money. Reply 578 ...

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Text - slowdownskeleton • 6h I am not an employee, but once at a rest stop I parked and exited my car to have a woman approach me and start screaming in my face that I stole her pet turtle when she wasnt looking a few miles back up the road, and that she had followed me to get it back. I was completely confused and didn't know what to say but really had to pee, so I went inside and did. When I came back out she was gone but my car was covered in napkins with writing on them I couldnt read. I nev

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Text - CurlSagan • 10h 6 Awards Oh fuck. I have some stories for you. I used to work at a gas station straight out of the X-files. You know: long empty highway curving through the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Then there's a single, lonely gas station that you drive past at 60 miles per hour while thinking, "Yeesh. Who would stop and go into that dump?". Then there's like 50 miles of road until a town where racist redneck lumberjacks have a perpetual, poorly-disguised hatred for the native and

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Text - I think that most of our customers were people who drove past the shady-looking station and then realized there's not gas for quite a while, so they would turn around and reluctantly come back to fill their tanks. They go inside. The only other customer is a trucker whose pants are so low that you can see that he's wearing an adult diaper. He's gazing at the nudie magazines. The weird gas station attendant looks like he could feasibly be an alien wearing human skin. That guy was me.

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Text - Kevin, the owner of this creepy gas station, believed in Bigfoot down to his very soul. He sold all sorts of Bigfoot garbage and really pushed for people to buy those old 35mm disposable cameras, just in case they see 'ol B-foot. My boss saw Bigfoot several times, claimed. I sometimes wonder if he hired me only because, from a certain angle, I could be mistaken for Bigfoot, or at least Bigfoot wearing human skin. In the corner of the gas station, Kevin set up a tiny Bigfoot "museum" where

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Text - In the museum, there were castings of shallow Bigfoot footprints. Every few days, I liked to remind my boss that Bigfoot would have to weigh like 90 pounds for those footprints to be so shallow. Kevin did not like that. He didn't like science. Bigfoot, for him, was a matter of faith. A few days would pass. I would leave at the end of my shift and hand Kevin a detailed picture I drew of my revised Bigfoot theory where Bigfoot was being lightened by a huge bunch of helium balloons, thus exp

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Text - The next day, I asked if any Bigfoot searchers had ever thought to look up, because Bigfoot might be floating through the trees with the help of Bigfoot's big balloons. Kevin hated it when I talked about Bigfoot. Life was great. I have made up a lot of bullshit about Bigfoot, among other things, just to annoy Kevin. These were the days before cellphone cameras and the ubiquity of technology. That was the golden-era of Bigfoot hunting and stupid stories of The Strange Things That Happen to

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Text - men who despise themselves when they are emotional. A man walks into the forest and he feels... something. It's hard to put into words what all these trees and wildlife do to your mind and your heart and your soul. A person who has never been in the woods can walk into them and suddenly realize an epiphany: "I am an outdoorsman." He thinks, "Holy shit, I'm not Jeff from Accounting, l'm actually an Outdoorsman. What am I doing with my life? Oh god! Oh god."

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Text - So, once upon a time, a man felt changed by the woods during his walk through them. And he decided, subconsciously, consciously, or sciously, to manifest this feeling into the form of a being. The legend of Bigfoot was formed. He didn't see a giant furry creature bounding through the woods, he saw a reflection of himself. He saw a viable explanation for the emotion in his chest. He hallucinated Bigfoot into existence in order to face himself. Anyway, when you tend a shitty gas station in

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Text - One time, I came out of the bathroom to what I thought was an empty 2 AM store, stood by the register sleepily. Then I just let go of the biggest post-urination fart of my life (You all have dads, right? You've heard strange noises in bathrooms before.) And suddenly, there was a nice woman who looked up from the chips section. Apparently, I didn't hear the doorbell, which played not a doorbell sound, but a cow's moo whenever someone walked in at 2 AM. I wasn't even embarrassed about the f

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Text - Anyway, sometimes I just liked to stand as still as possible in the Bigfoot Gas Station and stare-off into the distance so that anyone entering the gas station could be impressed by my ability to blend into the ample selection of cigarettes behind me. I bet that some of the wandering-eyed locals were jealous of my natural ability to stare at one single locus at the horizon, rather than two places.

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Text - My ability to stare is without competition. Why stare at all? Why creep-out gas station customers? Well, my explanation is as follows: When the entire world sees you as weird-looking, it's actually not a curse. It's a blessing. It's freeing. If, no matter how you act, you will be perceived as weird, then you are free. If the consequences are certain no matter your actions, then you are free to do whatever you want. Julius Caesar said something like that, probably, just before inventing th

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Text - CurlSagan • 10h 3 Awards What was I talking about? Oh the time I farted and then got robbed. Anyway, that lady bought her chips and pornography, as usual, and then left and then, obviously, I got robbed. But the robber walked right into the cloud of fart particles and my brain was like, "I'm going to remember every detail of this moment, forever." So instead of useful information in my head about mathematical formulas and "how to be sexy", I just have like 100 terabytes of mental footage

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Text - a Sheriff's Deputy, so being robbed was always a nice time to chat with him and catch up on local weirdo stories. We collected weirdo facts and data, like scientists who studied weirdos. This uncle, by the way, is now a massive pothead. I have known some big potheads in my day (despite not really being one, believe it or not), and my stupid cop uncle is currently the highest stoner l've ever known. He's perpetually up in the clouds, probably floating with Bigfoot. Last week, he forgot the

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Text - When people talk about cops being good apples or bad apples, I think that there is a third option of "fermented apples". Uncle Bob, in this example, is apple cider distilled into high-test moonshine. When he was a cop, I'm not entirely sure if he knew that he was a cop. I think he drove around just thinking he was a taxi driver or some shit. The only times he arrested people were when someone else blatantly had to ask him, "Well?... Bob?... Are you going to arrest that guy or what?" Then

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Text - This is a guy who shot a mirror accidentally while practicing to draw like in a Western. This wasn't when he was a kid. He was an officer of the law and like 35 with 3 little girls. This is a guy who once pulled the front end off of his car when he tied the winch to the wrong spot when trying to get out of ditch that he drove straight into for no reason. Uncle Bob was an idiot, but I have to love him because he's family. His insanity and my own, although disparate, are just branches of th

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Text - So when I farted, got robbed, and then called 911, my Uncle Bob showed up. I showed him the shitty, low- quality VHS security footage. It was mainly me standing perfectly still for several hours for maximum creepiness, staring at a single point in the distance. Then I drew a picture of Bigfoot surfing or something. Then I went to the bathroom. Then farted. Then a lady smelled the fart. And then Bigfoot came in and robbed the store. He also smelled the fart. You heard that right, Bigfoot r

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Text - "Aww fuck!" I thought to myself, because I knew what would happen now. I didn't want this to look like a Bigfoot robbery, because Kevin is going to be all over this stupid footage as proof of Bigfoot's existence. He would tell me that I saw Bigfoot and that I can't deny it now. He'd probably have a photo taken and blown up and put in the Bigfoot Museum, and then point at the photo and then point at me behind the register, and even though I wouldn't be able to hear what bullshit he was tel

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Text - So l just made up shit about Bigfoot. It was a different story every time. I didn't even care any more. Life was not great, you guys. I was working at a gas station with nothing but my own imagination. This was after a life of isolated homeschooling with nothing but huffing gasoline and my own imagination. Jesus, why am I even writing all this? None of it's true. You should not believe me. Aww fuck, my life is like a trainwreck going down a staircase off a cliff. It's all lies.

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Text - Anyway, so back to Uncle Bob and the video, Uncle Bob went out and actually found and arrested the robber. That's right, the guy who looked kinda like Bigfoot on VHS was caught, and he didn't look like Bigfoot at all, as I suspected. This was argued by his lawyer in court. They won. I laughed so fucking hard I think I shat my pants, right there on the wooden religious pews of the county courthouse. This, I knew, was going to be worth posting to the internet once someone would please inven

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Text - Anyway, hicks in Western Washington State are a real different breed of shitbags. There is no coincidence that, if your mouth is full of gross chewing tobacco, "Bigfoot" sounds kinda like "bigot". Oh, l'm not white, by the way. I guess I should mention that. Fuck it. And I want to mention this point because of one detail: A lot of people's Bigfoot stories boil down to, at their essence, "I saw a non-white guy in the woods." There is a very good chance that someone out there believes they

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Karen Disapproves Of Church Manager's Followers


The real question here is how Karen managed to figure out that this church manager's followers were in the adult film industry? Karen did some serious digging on that profile before she broke out the holier-than-thou BS. Big ups to the church manager for the way he handled this. Looks like Karen will have to take it up with the dude upstairs. 

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Text - Hey, I started following you because you're a Reverend...but then I noticed you have a few people following you who, I think are in porn. Aren't you concerned about that? 10:35 PM Nah. I'm sure I have to sign a release form before they can post any videos we do together. 10:37 PM /

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Text - I know you like to be funny but I think it's a serious thing when clergy tolerate porn. 10:38 PM I don't know who you're referring to specifically. I wonder how you know so much about the vocational choices of those who follow me? Venture capitalists follow me too. I probably struggle more with their work, just as many of the atheists who follow me probably aren't fans of the religion thing. But I think what matters more to us is what kind of person someone is and how they treat others. 1

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Text - A priest who approves of prostitutes. I find that reprehensible. 10:44 PM First, they prefer the term "sex worker". Second, Jesus was followed by sex workers. He didn't block them. Third, if Jesus wants to lead them to a different choice of work that's his business. Mine is to "do unto them as I would have them do to unto me", which to me means "Respect me as a person, don't judge me based on your preconceived ideas and prejudices. Get to know me. Care about me." 10:49 PM /

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Text - You'd be better off directing sinners to scripture than just "showing respect". 10:51 PM "Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice" - Matthew 9:13 10:52 PM / You can no longer send Direct Messages to this person. Learn more

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Text - RevDaniel @RevDaniel I don't know why she blocked me. I did what she asked. porn. 10:35 PM 10:38 PM Nah. I'm sure I have to sign a release form before they can post any videos we do together. I don't know who you're referring to specifically. I wonder how you know so much about the vocational 10:37 PM / choices of those who them do to unto me", which "showing respect". to me means "Respect me as a person, don't judge me based on your 10:51 PM "Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy,

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Tumblr Thread: All Is Forgotten Over Time


The devil is in the details, and if those details aren't specific civilizations can find themselves writhing around in complete confusion. This Tumblr thread points out how the Roman concrete recipe that makes it immune to water could've gone undiscovered/misinterpreted for so long because we never would've thought the recipe was calling for "seawater." Things spiral out of control quickly from there, and suddenly we're looking at a forecast for a future generation that's out there scrambling fish eggs because they never would've thought to use chicken eggs. Specifics are golden. 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this Tumblr user who inspired a meltdown after saying that fish aren't animals.

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Text - watermelon-mafia S lemememeringue Follow systlin Follow GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER http://www.msn.com/en-us/news /technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old -roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists /ar-BBDO5VC beautifultoastdream EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! systlin Follow I KNOW RIGHT?!???

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Text - ella-raene Follow I can't help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying "it was done with this and this", and some old rich white guys looked at it and went "oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover" For a long time, archeologists didn't know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle" in the descri

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Text - The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went "oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?" LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went "what if we did the thing the pictures said they did" AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT. Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going "that's a myth sweaty" Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual

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Text - systlin Follow In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That's so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn't necessary, everyone k

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Text - It's sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that's mentioned all the time, but we don't actually know where it was located. Because it isn't written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It's Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It'd be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written

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Text - aethersea Follow 2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense lierdumoa Follow Forget eggs what about milk? They'll look back in the ancients and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they'll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkero

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Misunderstood Mother-In-Law Stars In Horror Fiction Tale


R/nosleep is infamous for horror fiction, and this particular story paints quite the horrifying picture. Initially, it looks like we're dealing with a case of an evil mother-in-law, but newly surfaced details completely change the game. Turns out that mother-in-law was just trying to undermine a very evil dude named Craig. 

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Text - Or/nosleep My Mother-In-Law was poisoning me, then I found out why Everyone has their own nightmare in-law story, though I couldn't imagine how bad mine would be. As it turns out the worst thing wasn't my mother-in-law poisoning me, the worst thing was why she did it. I met Craig on one of my rare vacations and we had sort of a whirlwind relationship. We fell hard for each other and were married in a courthouse wedding within two months without ever meeting each other's families. Mine vis

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Text - r/nosleep On our last day he announced that we should take an afternoon hike up into the national park their house sat on the edge of. Betsy made lunch and I was changing to go out when it hit me, just waves of nausea. I wound up in the bathroom for hours that afternoon. I figure it was just a touch of something and thought nothing of it. We went back a few months months later and again had a great time except for Betsy. She wouldn't talk to me, though Craig brushed it off and said she wa

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Text - r/nosleep Well, I hadn't had two bites before I realized I had left the wine I was drinking unattended while I was heating up the casserole, and my stomach was already doing flips. You know what happened next, and it was not pretty. I was so sure his mom was poisoning me, and I confronted Craig about it. I told him I wouldn't visit his family again if she was there. It was our first big fight, but he finally said he wouldn't force me to visit, and we could figure out how best to deal with

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Text - Or/nosleep I've never seen such anger before, the rage in his eyes is something l'll remember for the rest of my life. He shoved me into a wall and then came flying at me. He threw me over the couch, but I somehow managed to grab my keys and phone and ran out the door not even wearing shoes. I got lucky with the elevator and made it to a friend's place safely, finally turning off my phone after I missed his 47th call. I had no idea what to do or when it would be safe to go home, it was th

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Tumblr Thread: Sleep And A Snack Cures All


This quick and entertaining Tumblr post shines some light on the widely accepted truth that a quick snooze and a snack can calm the fieriest of tempers. Seriously though, once the post-nap disorientation wears off, the mind will often feel so much better. At the very least, it's worth a shot. 

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Text - Joy Clarkson @joynessthebrave This is your gentle reminder that one time in the Bible Elijah was like "God, I'm so mad! I want to die!" so God said "Here's some food. Why don't you have a nap?" So Elijah slept, ate, & decided things weren't so bad. Never underestimate the spiritual power of a nap & a snack. 9:02 AM - 2/28/19 Twitter Web Client

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Text - saanx I could be wrong but what's interesting to me personally is that Elijah wasnt just mad, he was scared for his life cuz there was a queen who wanted him dead so Elijah ran and told God he wanted to die because he was in such anguish But God is so good and He always knows what we need! archer-bro Notice too that he didn't even give Elijah some encouraging words to comfort him. He just told him to eat. Sometimes just being there and making sure someone gets through their anguish is eno

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Text - goatyellsateverything And God said, "Have a Snickers." xphilosoraptorx SNICKERS

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Cartoon - And Elijah inquired of the Lord, asking "Why?" and the Lord replied, "Because thou doth lament greatly when thou art hungry". SNICKERS

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Text - Thus Elijah took and he ate of the confection, finding it to be exceedingly satisfying. The Lord then asked, "Art thou better?", and Elijah replied, "Indeed Lord, I am better". Then the Lord further advised Elijah, saying unto him, "Thou art not thineself when thou art hungry". sighinastorm quality religious jokes, people my-pet-spider-oml reblogging for the snickers 52,537 notes

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Twitter Thread: Wife's Husband Loves Shower Snacks


Jenna Guillaume's hilarious Twitter thread started with a complete curveball of a question. She asks whether it's normal that her husband enjoys his snacks in the shower? It shouldn't even matter whether it's normal or not. This guy is living his best life. Totally support his idea to start up a YouTube channel about shower snacks, and which snacks appropriately qualify as shower snacks. 

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Text - Jenna Guillaume? @JennaGuillaume are shower snacks a thing or just something my weirdo husband does 4:48 pm · 31/7/20 · TweetDeck 13 Retweets and comments 157 Likes Jenna Guillaume? @JennaG... · 31/7/20 Replying to @JennaGuillaume me: why is there a pringles container in the shower my husband, like it's the most normal thing in the world: oh my shower snacks O 17 88

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Text - Jenna Guillaume? O @JennaG... · 31/7/20 ▼ Also, he's not limited to pringles. He informed me ice cream is the best (the kind on a stick: Magnums, Gaytimes etc). He's also a fan of shower chocolate, the occasional shower lollipop, and one time he even had a shower slurpee. 29 Jenna Guillaume? O @JennaG. 31/7/20 ▼ he's v distressed that people don't understand that his snacks STAY DRY. "They need to know I'm a tall guy, alright? Your head is below the showerhead. Mine is above it. The water

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Text - @JennaG... · 31/7/20 me: but WHY do you need a snack in the Jenna Guillaume? shower? him: well, I want a snack andI need a shower. Multitasking. me: but- him: look UNTIL YOU TRY, YOU DON'T KNOW! 271 26 Jenna Guillaume7 @JennaG.. 31/7/20 (also for everyone asking: his showers are like regular length, not particularly long. which makes the need for snacks even weirder) 31 @JennaGuill... · 12m Update: my husband just walked in the room, very excited: “I should start a YouTube channel called

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Food - Jenna Guillaume7 @JennaGuillaume Here he goes

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