Some of these made me laugh out loud but the one that struck a chord was the one where the person pretended her dad had just gone to the loo and sat with two cups of coffee. I can so empathise with that. I sometimes pretend my dad is away on a very long holiday - he has been dead for 15 years.
My Dad just died 2 years ago. Years ago he built a ratty little wooden table for the deck to put is coffee on. I wouldn't let them get rid of it when Mom sold the house, it's in my basement where "we" can work on it to fix it up. It's almost done, but I don't want it to be finished.
When I am trying a new recipe, I talk it over with my Dad. He's been gone 20 years. He was a very good cook, and I swear he helps me out of tough recipes..
I used to live in another country with my mum, sometimes I like to think my dad is still waiting for me to go on hollidays in Belgium... mum & dad died almost 30 years ago... RIP missing them everyday of my life
My dad used to be a medic in the army during Vietnam. While there, he picked up a few phrases in other languages, such as Vietnamese, Chinese, French, and he already knew English, and would later study Spanish when I was a little boy. Most of what he knew were simple phrases, such as "Stop! Don't do that!" and maybe a greeting or two. What he knew was enough to warn natives with his unit when he noticed danger. When I was in gradeschool, my parents were house parents for an orphanage in Moore Oklahoma. Among the many children they took care of, in addition to myself, were three vietnamese brothers around my age. They were all fluent in multiple languages, and would chatter on with each other in these various languages. It annoyed Mom and Dad when they would do it at the kitchen table during meals. One day, Dad barked out something in Vietnamese, 'Stop that', I think. And then proceeded to tell each of them in the various languages they were chatting in to not do it again. Until the day they left, Dad had them convinced he could understand every word they were saying when in truth, he only knew a few phrases.
My apartment neighbors rescued a kitten stuck on a balcony when it was 105° one day. Her owner never went looking for her. Penny's been with me 12 years and is still spoiled, happy and healthy. 😻
Silly, but something I did when I was probably 14, I was at my grandmother's house, and standing out in the yard, I knew I was going to grow up someday and my life would be different, I wanted to remember that moment in my grandmother's yard, (she passed years ago) so I waved up to the sky, and said hi to the me I would become in the future, and once every few years, I travel back in my mind and think of that moment, and I wave back to that little girl. It was just a mind game, I don't know why I thought to do that when I was a kid.
He definitely did, otherwise he wouldn't have been married for 10 years and put that in the message and it's not like an engagement ring means they're immediately married
I'm saying that I know some people who don't want to upset others to the point that they'll do things they don't want to, and yes, even something like marriage unfortunately. I'm glad you all don't know anyone like that ♥️
@@HaloHighlightz you're wright, there are definitely people like that out there, but I interpreted it as a happy post because of the: we've been married for 10 years and I deemed the chances of this being a person who says 'yes' at the altar without meaning it small so I just wanted to say in my original comment: don't worry, it's probably alright 😅
I still talk out loud to my brother who died a few years back. We always used to argue about music in the car, and I find myself talking to him about it sometimes when I'm alone in the car
When dealing with someone who has dementia, live on their planet. It's pretty hard at first. Go along with what they say, be agreeable and don't try to talk sense into them. They're a lot less stressed out that way.
My Dad is in the early stages. I moved home with my parents for COVID reasons with employment and it's July 2022 and I'm still here. So I want to tell you I genuinely appreciate the advice. I just want him to be as happy and calm as he can possibly be, given what our family is facing moving forward. Your words really helped somebody today, I just thought I should let you know. 😀💜
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Wow, Thank you so much for letting me know. I'm really glad my thoughts could help you. You and your family will be in my prayers.
Absolutely! It was so hard to watch my mom struggle so hard to converse with my Dementia laden Dad for years. There was a time when she finally saw him as he was in that moment -a shell of the man she’d married decades ago, but still there. Their relationship after that moment, until his death, was so sweet. Had never seen that kind of sweetness between them before. Love them as they are currently. Don’t force the past on them. It can be such sweet times, memories, moments and years!
I used to work in a care home. I worked on the "closed" ward where people with Alzheimer's and dementia stayed. The ward was locked because most of the people there would wander around, leave the care home and get lost so it was safer for them to keep the door to the ward locked. Anyhow, I remember how a lot of them would think I was their daughter. While some of them would get upset and say I was never visiting them anymore, others were really happy to see me and they would talk about things that happened when their real daughter was still a child. I always played along. When they said I wasn't coming to visit anymore I would tell them I had been busy but that I had been there a week ago and that I would be back the following day. When they were reminiscing I would bring up some of their memories I remembered from earlier conversations. In the end they were always happy. It made me so sad to see that some would never get a visit from their children. I would call the sons/daughters and ask them to please come and visit their mum/dad and most of them would say: "What's the point? (S)He doesn't recognize me anymore, it's just too painful." I would them tell them how mum or dad was asking about them every single day and that maybe they didn't recognize them anymore they still knew they had a son or daughter and they still had memories from when they were small. I would tell them they could share memories with their mum/dad and that it would make them less lonely. It sometimes worked and they would come and visit again but some were in my opinion pretty selfish and stayed away because it was too painful for them....
I took a guinea pig from someone's front lawn a few years ago. It rarely had water, the cage was never moved and even my nanna would stop to give it food. So I roped my boyfriend into helping me take it during the night. He/she lived a happy life with me
The "racist" with the Prada bag reminded me of an Army Medic I worked with. He was supposedly American Indian. He told me that he would always make blood draws or IVs extra painful for "racists that hate Indians". I asked him how he knew and he said, "I can just tell." I'm wondering if it wasn't the hate in the person's own heart they were seeing and not actual racism in the other person. I wonder if the Prada handbag held the last photo of a parent or child, an old letter from a lost loved one or a gift for someone that is ill.
Oh I promise, you can tell. Usually because of micro aggressions or body language. The thing is, we pick up this shit sub consciously even when we don't realise it as a survival mechanism. It usually manifests as a feeling of discomfort or not feeling safe. Basically, if you are portraying the body language and micro aggressions the same as every other person they have come across who turns out to be racist. Most white able bodied cis-hets never have to learn this, though, so if the woman who threw the bag overboard was white, the prada woman would have had to have been pretty Fucking racist, overtly so.
Yeah, that one bothered me as well... Being racist isn't a crime, but throwing someone's property into the ocean because of hurt feelings is... That is way too far. Just being someone is a jerk and says terrible things doesn't give anyone the right to turn around and damage personal property or do physical harm. Doesn't make them any better than the people they claim to deserve it.
@@kerrihiggins2106 I hear you. I swear I really do understand what you're saying. But... I definitely also understand the OP's impulse. I wouldn't do it, but TBH I think it's a little funny. *Actually throwing an expensive purse in the Harbour is too far, now that I think about it. You mentioned photographs or a gift being inside. I'm thinking about all the stuff you have to deal with when your purse is stolen. You have to cancel credit cards, get a new driver's license, maybe get a new passport, you probably have to get a couple new keys made, there could've been medication in there, or jewelry... I agree it's not cool. Unless she was like level 1,000 obnoxious and blatantly hateful. In that case, I would laugh. 😇💜
As a WOC, I don’t think it’s okay to destroy other people’s property because they’re racist. That’s the same thinking that racists have when they do something against a person or group they don’t like, and two wrongs don’t make a right. But what’s done is done and hopefully the person who dropped the purse feels better 🤷🏾♀️
My ex- father in law had Alzheimer’s and he would reset every ten or fifteen minutes or so. I adored him and miss him so much. He was a Navy WWII vet. So I came to visit and he was watching TV. I say hiya guy whatcha watching? He says, “ Well Hi There, are you married?” I tell him yes to his youngest son, he’d be confused, asks if he has a good job, asks does he take care of me. Then he resets. Starts all over again. Eventually I tell him, No Sailor, whatcha got in mind. Oh he’d get so happy until a commercial broke his gaze. Then he reset again….He died before the divorce happen or he might have thought he had a chance.
I committed this EXACT CRIME with a neighbor's cat 🐈⬛ in 2014! He peed on something ONE TIME so they made him live 100% outside. This is Ohio. We have cold winters and at least 4 weeks of +90⁰F heat in the summer. The cat was a slightly chubby, black shorthair. He had a tail that was way too skinny for his body, a pronounced underbite, permanent bug eyes, a weird patch of brown fur shaped like a crescent moon, and instead of meowing he made this weird noise that sounded like "Maaahhhh! Mah-mah! Mah-mah! "Maaaaaaaahhhhh! He was so sweet too. VERY cuddly. He wanted human attention SO BADLY! His humans would just pour him a whole bag of food once a week and then ignore him. He made friends with my cat and that's when I said f*ck it. This is my cat now! The assholes didn't even notice he was missing FOR FIVE MONTHS! Then when they realized he was "missing" they didn't do a damn thing to find him other than to ask a few neighbors if they'd see him. This solidified any doubts I had about stealing him. Finnegan Kearns lived another 9 years with us. For those 9 years he never once experienced stale food or hunger, got too cold, got too hot, got ignored, had to sleep on concrete or got forced outside to fend for himself. He was very affectionate and got tons of chin scratches every day for those 9 years. He died in my arms. The last thing he saw was the face of his rescuer and protector, who he knew loved him very much. This was sad, of course, but Finn didn't die alone and abandoned. He didn't die with no one holding him and softly petting him. To me, that's a win. Love you, Finny Boy! Miss you! 🐈⬛💜
My father died 8 years ago. He played Civilization every day on Steam and his account is still on my friends list. When I visit my mother, I secretly make sure that Steam continues to start automatically with his account. Whenever my mother starts the computer, I get a message that my father is online.
The confession about tickling her in laws ear with her tongue rings loudly for me. At my mother's funeral, my uncle, who is only 2 months older than I, came in for a hug on meeting up, and as I was saying hello, etc, I bit him on his neck. It WAS talked about..Monica giving her uncle a hickey!!
I worked at a Bob Evans restaurant while I was in college. There was a lovely group of elderly folks who came in around 4pm a few days a week. One guy always ordered 2 entrees. About half of the 2nd entree was eaten by the time they would leave so all us servers didn't think much of it. Dude must just really like the food here. So fast forward. The guy bought the meal for his wife, who had died in 1978. (This was 2001). The reason half her food was always eaten was that she was a very petite person and had a little quirk about her where she would always get people to eat some of her food, because she could never finish it. I can't decide if this is incredibly sweet or incredibly sad. Maybe a bit of both? I think the coolest thing about this guy is that he has acquired some amazingly supportive friends. No one shamed him or confronted him with logic or teased him about it. You don't have friends like that in your life unless you deserve them. I worked there another 2.5 years and by then I was always the waitress they requested if I was working that day. When I told them I was not going to be working at Bob Evans anymore after that day, every person in that group insisted I give them my address. I got Christmas cards from all 8 of them that year. (One lady always put a $10 bill inside it, lol! 😆) As time passed I would get 7 cards a year, then 6, then 5... idk why told this long ass story but I guess I felt like someone out there either needed to hear it or would enjoy it in some way. I'm shocked if you have read this far, but I am so thankful. It brought up memories that are, overall, very happy ones. 🍰🍽☕💜☕🍽🍰
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Thank you. Sweet and sad are two sides of the same coin. My dear Dad spent 15 years caring for my Mum through dementia. He was utterly devoted to her. She died 4 years ago but still says goodnight to her.
@@Aaron628318 That's very sweet and very sad. His devotion to her is (unfortunately) a rare thing. They were both lucky to have experienced such a strong love. Hard to find that.
My girlfriend and I had an open sexual relationship. It was her idea as she liked girls as well as guys and didn't want to give them up. I could relate being bi myself. The week before I was supposed to meet her parents I went to a gay bathhouse and spent time with an older gentleman. Now my girlfriend warned me to avoid talking about the openness of our relationship as her father was a Baptist minister and very devout and religious not to mention judgmental. Imagine my shock and his when I was introduced to her parents only to be shaking hands with the same gentleman I spent the night with days before. I think his shock was greater. Later we had "the talk" alone in his study. We agreed to never mention our encounter to anyone and he agreed to never speak badly of me to his daughter. My girlfriend was so relieved that her Dad and I got along so well. If only she knew.
some made me laugh, some made my heart ache - the loneliness felt when your beloved parent is gone, or, your beloved partner. So much said by so many in so few words… powerful. Thank you, I always enjoy your videos, but especially this type
that mum with dementia being so happy about always being able to find her cigarette lighter, kind as it is, gives me pause. If she's that bad off...how long til she forgets to put one out and the house burns down?
Lighters go out on their own if you don't put enough pressure on the switch/trigger. If she forgets to remove her fingers and just holds it, that's another possible risk though
It’s extremely hard to light anything on fire with a lit cigarette. Also almost all furniture and carpet these days is deliberately made to be fire resistant. More concerning with dementia would be something like turning on a stove burner and forgetting.
My sister ran away from home when I was 14. some years later my father was dying of cancer in our home. He had multiple tumors, and one in the brain that made him deteriorate more and more over the course of a year. In the end he was blind and nearly crazy with fear of dying. It was truly horrible. One evening I went into his room and he asked „Is it you xy“ thinking I was my sister who he hadn’t seen in years. I don’t know why but I said „yes“. He then asked „Is everything ok between us“ and I - even though he had been a horrible person and an even more horrible father - had seen him suffer more than enough and wanted to give him at least a little peace and said „yes“. He sighed and I think it really meant something to him, a couple of days later he died. Ten years later after my mom had died as well I found a note that implied that my father had sexually abused my sister…. So basically he died thinking my sister had forgiven him.. I never told her and will never tell her…
10 years of unintentional marriage cause he couldn't break her heart sounds like he was lucky. Most marriages I know of that were completely intentional didn't make it more than half that long.
These are some very interesting messages. Some I feel very bad for. It really shows how different all our personalities are as humans, and how different all our brains work. I guess if you just admit things sometimes, the pain lifts a little.
Roller coaster of emotions. Like the guy who sniffed up his cats dirt, I did something similar with toast crumbs in a napkin. Also no one to share with.
My mom accidentally put a stink bug in her mouth and bit into it because she thought it was a crumb of whatever she was eating and didn't really look at it
My father figure (never knew my real dad) always came to stay with us for a couple of days for Christmas - never missed a year - he died on Christmas Eve night after saying he’ll pick me up the next day for a surprise and also promised a holiday to somewhere I always wanted to go (never did). That was 6 years ago when I was a kid. Had trust issues, separation anxiety and more since. Christmas will never be the same without him, I still wait for the phone to ring for him to say he’ll be arriving soon.
1:07 My laptop has a hard time working properly because it's slowly dying sadly. It can't run everything and struggles to keep working properly when I open a second tab on Google. A while ago I found out it will work slightly better if I'm nice to it. As long as I greet it while its running or thank it for something simple like starting up it will run smoothly for a while. The exact same thing works with my parents laptop that is in an even worse condition than mine
Yup definitely know cases where thanking the computer seems to help. Unfortunately, it only works for a short while so be prepped to get a new one soon.
1:48 Met a girl the Christmas before a leap year. On 29th Feb she said "Will you marry me?!" with a smile on her face. I thought she was joking and said yes. She then proceeded to tell all her family and friends that we were engaged!
That ticket one is sweet, but I don't think it works that way if I am understanding it correctly. If there are five tickets on sale and you add them all to the cart, they are still available for everyone to buy only until you officially buy them.
6:24 why would you ask your wife ? Tell her what your student did , and that you are going to buy a lego set. No need to keep it a secret , and yes, she can have a go with it :))
These were great and touching. I particularly liked the poor, mistreated cat and the bus driver ones. Oh, and the designer bag at the bottom of Sydney harbour. Brilliant! And I, too always thank ‘Alexa’ because it’s polite. 😃👍
1:17 this is the saddest thing I have ever heard. But also I like to sit In my tree house and pretend that my (now deceased) dog is sitting underneath listening to me talk my day and all the things I now have to do without her by my side 💕 🥹
7:58 if you can prove he is having an affair , you can get a divorce and get a judge to kick him out. but you'd have to pay him half the value of the house. i wonder if " he is still paying the bills " has anything to do with it ? :)
This is what is wrong with the world today: people think they can commit a FELONY (stealing a $1000 Prada handbag) because they think they are serving JUSTICE. I bet that if someone saw what you did and decided that JUSTICE demands that THIEVES should swim home, “I DID NOTHING WRONG” would probably been your last words. AND THOSE WORD WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONG!
my dark secret: when i die (hopefully a long time from now) it will be months before anyone notices and even then it's only because they came to evict me for not paying rent that my body will be discovered
Me too.... I'm in a house though, so depending on season, it will be probably 6+ months before I get found....all bills are auto pay. There are a lot of us like this....
*Me: OMG that is so gross! *Also me: Hahahahaa! 😆😆😆 *Me again: He totally deserved it! *Yep. Still me: I want to be friends with this woman. 👭💜 (Edited for spelling)
I peed in the cup of tea I made for my horrible patronising boss on the last day of my temping job, at the time I thought it served him right but now I think he just had a part of me in his system which makes me feel icky lol.
When I was in the military my Staff Sergeant was sexually harassing me so when his wife and children went out of town I made him a pan of brownies with Ex-Lax in it! He stopped after that; no regrets on my part!
Many of these were hilarious but the "Prada incident" one has me worried a bit. We don't know the context and the whole story, but I mean if you want the racist to learn the lesson, this clearly isn't the best way: They will not link this incident to them being racist but only think of it as a strange misfortune and would not fix their attitude because of this. Saying racist slurs is a hate crime in some countries but the destruction of someone's property is also a crime. I get the op's point (to ruin the person's day) but commiting crimes to fight against crimes is a very bizarre logic.
Most people just like to use racism to excuse their own shitty behavior. Anytime someone tells me they're anti-racist, what they're really telling me is that they're a narcissistic piece of shit who likes to make themselves as much of a pain in the ass as possible to everyone around them, and they just use that as their shield. So fuck anyone who claims to be an anti-racist, and fuck anyone who even talks about racism.
1:40 racist or not , it's a crime to steal and damage another persons property ( doesnt matter if its a $1,000 handbag , or a $1 lighter ) and you are so " brave " to do it when the owner wasnt looking . try that round me and you'll follow my item into the water.
Agreed. Yeah, racists are a-holes. But what's in the bag? Someone's medicine? A cell phone? Lots of cash? Credit cards? You can really screw up someone's life by doing that. Not just a "funny" prank. Many better options to deal with someone like that.
Yeah, this one bugs me for legal reasons. Yes, racism is detestable but they actually have a RIGHT to think that way whereas nobody has a right to steal and destroy property.
@@atalleywak but they actually have a RIGHT to think that way agreed . there was a sci fi story from decades ago called " dreaming is a private thing " or something . what someone ' thinks ' is their affair . they can hate someone from a different race , or sex , or political persuasion , or religion , football team. Its up to them. Its usually born of ignorance or fear , or both. I try to feel sorry for them , instead of hating them. If i can, i'll try to inform or educate them , but a lot of the time, they are so fixed in their ideas, that they can not learn. " there are none so blind as those who will not see " . If they wont learn , i'll walk away from them. why waste my time with an idiot. It is when their views turn to action and that action starts to hurt others , whether by physical action or by passing a law. Thats when i try to help those who suffer from such actions. All it takes for evil to succeed , is for good men to do nothing. good quotes and phrases , but at some time , we all have to stand up and be counted. or we all fall together .
I have two star tattoos on the side of my face , one Halloween I added more and later spent an hour trying to figure out why they would not wash off ( my tats ) I am an idiot lol.
In sixth grade I found out my eyes suck, lol. I didn't want glasses and my parents let me get contacts :) Now there's a surgery to fix our dumb eyes! I think we'll be able to fix them before it's a problem in the near future.
The day I was not the guilty from killing the Fijian woman's dog (found my Irish Wolfhound whining) because of a dispute I live still guilty I couldn't save it. Don't ever tell me Pitbull dogs are angels, please. Ever. That poor dog is in a better place now.
Years ago when backpacking through Europe and staying in Utah schools there were two young women heavy southern accent the kept leaving their money laying on the bed. Baby it was just like Play money to them. Also they had a wind-up alarm clock and it ticked so loud all night long one of the other people in the room stuck in the hallway. They were so annoying so after the third time that they wrapped money laying on their bed I took it. It was worth about $10. Wow I've never told anybody this
Some of these were happy, others sad, others downright heartbreaking... I'm not ashamed to admit I nearly shed a few tears.
Like the one where their mom died of cancer…
I was gonna say the same thing....
Yes, and the music was also not helping 🥺🥺
It just goes to show how sad/pathetic/weak some people are!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 uhhh did you mean to make that sound like your being rude
Some of these made me laugh out loud but the one that struck a chord was the one where the person pretended her dad had just gone to the loo and sat with two cups of coffee. I can so empathise with that. I sometimes pretend my dad is away on a very long holiday - he has been dead for 15 years.
May he rest in peace and may his good memories always keep you warm and happy
My Dad just died 2 years ago. Years ago he built a ratty little wooden table for the deck to put is coffee on. I wouldn't let them get rid of it when Mom sold the house, it's in my basement where "we" can work on it to fix it up. It's almost done, but I don't want it to be finished.
When I am trying a new recipe, I talk it over with my Dad. He's been gone 20 years. He was a very good cook, and I swear he helps me out of tough recipes..
I recently lost a very good friend, I still play the game we played together online , but now I pretend the Autoplayer is her
I used to live in another country with my mum, sometimes I like to think my dad is still waiting for me to go on hollidays in Belgium... mum & dad died almost 30 years ago... RIP missing them everyday of my life
My dad used to be a medic in the army during Vietnam. While there, he picked up a few phrases in other languages, such as Vietnamese, Chinese, French, and he already knew English, and would later study Spanish when I was a little boy. Most of what he knew were simple phrases, such as "Stop! Don't do that!" and maybe a greeting or two. What he knew was enough to warn natives with his unit when he noticed danger. When I was in gradeschool, my parents were house parents for an orphanage in Moore Oklahoma. Among the many children they took care of, in addition to myself, were three vietnamese brothers around my age. They were all fluent in multiple languages, and would chatter on with each other in these various languages. It annoyed Mom and Dad when they would do it at the kitchen table during meals. One day, Dad barked out something in Vietnamese, 'Stop that', I think. And then proceeded to tell each of them in the various languages they were chatting in to not do it again. Until the day they left, Dad had them convinced he could understand every word they were saying when in truth, he only knew a few phrases.
😂😂😂
The less said the more people believe you know … in any language 🤓
@@Rune789 My Dad had a saying, "You don't need to be holding four Aces if you can make them think you're holding four Aces."
@@grahck4391 😃
My husband gets legos every year for his birthday, he never got such things growing up and is quite pleased with his collection he has now.
I am 57. I still stop and look at the Lego and miniature car displays. I am 57. I look 47 and my heart is 7.
Legos have no age limit! They are just cooler than heck.
That's okay legos are for 3-99
Also love Lego. Grew up pretty poor and now I'm adult and I love to buy them. 😊
@@mikewilcox9348 i love the 18+ lego sets.
The man who watches his kids play. Such a wise man.
I will chuckle at the busdriver story all day.
My apartment neighbors rescued a kitten stuck on a balcony when it was 105° one day. Her owner never went looking for her. Penny's been with me 12 years and is still spoiled, happy and healthy. 😻
Silly, but something I did when I was probably 14, I was at my grandmother's house, and standing out in the yard, I knew I was going to grow up someday and my life would be different, I wanted to remember that moment in my grandmother's yard, (she passed years ago) so I waved up to the sky, and said hi to the me I would become in the future, and once every few years, I travel back in my mind and think of that moment, and I wave back to that little girl. It was just a mind game, I don't know why I thought to do that when I was a kid.
That's not silly. That's beautiful.
So sad for the unintentionally married guy. Hopefully he’s in love with her and was planning on proposing at some point 😬
He definitely did, otherwise he wouldn't have been married for 10 years and put that in the message and it's not like an engagement ring means they're immediately married
I just hope she didn't turn out to be the counterpoint to his graciousness!
@@julievanamsterdam136 I guess, but at some point the marriage becomes intentional if it was wanted
I'm saying that I know some people who don't want to upset others to the point that they'll do things they don't want to, and yes, even something like marriage unfortunately. I'm glad you all don't know anyone like that ♥️
@@HaloHighlightz you're wright, there are definitely people like that out there, but I interpreted it as a happy post because of the: we've been married for 10 years
and I deemed the chances of this being a person who says 'yes' at the altar without meaning it small so I just wanted to say in my original comment: don't worry, it's probably alright 😅
6:04 my Dad died 20 years ago. I still talk to him ... out loud. and yes, he still provides a sensible answer :) Thanks Dad :)
I still talk out loud to my brother who died a few years back. We always used to argue about music in the car, and I find myself talking to him about it sometimes when I'm alone in the car
When dealing with someone who has dementia, live on their planet. It's pretty hard at first. Go along with what they say, be agreeable and don't try to talk sense into them. They're a lot less stressed out that way.
My Dad is in the early stages. I moved home with my parents for COVID reasons with employment and it's July 2022 and I'm still here. So I want to tell you I genuinely appreciate the advice. I just want him to be as happy and calm as he can possibly be, given what our family is facing moving forward. Your words really helped somebody today, I just thought I should let you know. 😀💜
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Wow, Thank you so much for letting me know.
I'm really glad my thoughts could help you. You and your family will be in my prayers.
@@mayorb3366 💜💜💜💜💜
Absolutely! It was so hard to watch my mom struggle so hard to converse with my Dementia laden Dad for years. There was a time when she finally saw him as he was in that moment -a shell of the man she’d married decades ago, but still there. Their relationship after that moment, until his death, was so sweet. Had never seen that kind of sweetness between them before.
Love them as they are currently. Don’t force the past on them. It can be such sweet times, memories, moments and years!
I used to work in a care home. I worked on the "closed" ward where people with Alzheimer's and dementia stayed. The ward was locked because most of the people there would wander around, leave the care home and get lost so it was safer for them to keep the door to the ward locked.
Anyhow, I remember how a lot of them would think I was their daughter. While some of them would get upset and say I was never visiting them anymore, others were really happy to see me and they would talk about things that happened when their real daughter was still a child.
I always played along. When they said I wasn't coming to visit anymore I would tell them I had been busy but that I had been there a week ago and that I would be back the following day. When they were reminiscing I would bring up some of their memories I remembered from earlier conversations. In the end they were always happy.
It made me so sad to see that some would never get a visit from their children. I would call the sons/daughters and ask them to please come and visit their mum/dad and most of them would say: "What's the point? (S)He doesn't recognize me anymore, it's just too painful." I would them tell them how mum or dad was asking about them every single day and that maybe they didn't recognize them anymore they still knew they had a son or daughter and they still had memories from when they were small. I would tell them they could share memories with their mum/dad and that it would make them less lonely.
It sometimes worked and they would come and visit again but some were in my opinion pretty selfish and stayed away because it was too painful for them....
That first one isn't catnapping, that's rescuing.
1:25 That dog is gonna be called as a witness at the divorce hearing. Pretty hard on the poor fella, he just wants everyone to be happy and get along.
That glasses one was so sweet 🥺 I also really hated wearing glasses when I was young, maybe I'll start doing that
The bus driver had me. LOL
I want to have a beer with that dude! That's so funny!
Lowkey might switch carrers, thats one benfit i never tought about, lol!!
I can relate to the first comment. We once rescued a cat that was neglected by a neighbour and gave it to a caring friend.
That's so nice: )
Thanks you
I took a guinea pig from someone's front lawn a few years ago. It rarely had water, the cage was never moved and even my nanna would stop to give it food. So I roped my boyfriend into helping me take it during the night. He/she lived a happy life with me
I've rescued all my cats. We never brought one, they all came to us.
The "racist" with the Prada bag reminded me of an Army Medic I worked with. He was supposedly American Indian. He told me that he would always make blood draws or IVs extra painful for "racists that hate Indians". I asked him how he knew and he said, "I can just tell."
I'm wondering if it wasn't the hate in the person's own heart they were seeing and not actual racism in the other person. I wonder if the Prada handbag held the last photo of a parent or child, an old letter from a lost loved one or a gift for someone that is ill.
Oh I promise, you can tell. Usually because of micro aggressions or body language. The thing is, we pick up this shit sub consciously even when we don't realise it as a survival mechanism. It usually manifests as a feeling of discomfort or not feeling safe. Basically, if you are portraying the body language and micro aggressions the same as every other person they have come across who turns out to be racist. Most white able bodied cis-hets never have to learn this, though, so if the woman who threw the bag overboard was white, the prada woman would have had to have been pretty Fucking racist, overtly so.
Man sometimes people are just racist and POC are allowed to be mad about it 😭
Yeah, that one bothered me as well... Being racist isn't a crime, but throwing someone's property into the ocean because of hurt feelings is... That is way too far. Just being someone is a jerk and says terrible things doesn't give anyone the right to turn around and damage personal property or do physical harm. Doesn't make them any better than the people they claim to deserve it.
@@kerrihiggins2106 I hear you. I swear I really do understand what you're saying. But... I definitely also understand the OP's impulse. I wouldn't do it, but TBH I think it's a little funny.
*Actually throwing an expensive purse in the Harbour is too far, now that I think about it. You mentioned photographs or a gift being inside. I'm thinking about all the stuff you have to deal with when your purse is stolen. You have to cancel credit cards, get a new driver's license, maybe get a new passport, you probably have to get a couple new keys made, there could've been medication in there, or jewelry... I agree it's not cool. Unless she was like level 1,000 obnoxious and blatantly hateful. In that case, I would laugh. 😇💜
As a WOC, I don’t think it’s okay to destroy other people’s property because they’re racist. That’s the same thinking that racists have when they do something against a person or group they don’t like, and two wrongs don’t make a right. But what’s done is done and hopefully the person who dropped the purse feels better 🤷🏾♀️
The bus driver one 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My ex- father in law had Alzheimer’s and he would reset every ten or fifteen minutes or so. I adored him and miss him so much. He was a Navy WWII vet. So I came to visit and he was watching TV. I say hiya guy whatcha watching? He says, “ Well Hi There, are you married?” I tell him yes to his youngest son, he’d be confused, asks if he has a good job, asks does he take care of me. Then he resets. Starts all over again. Eventually I tell him, No Sailor, whatcha got in mind. Oh he’d get so happy until a commercial broke his gaze. Then he reset again….He died before the divorce happen or he might have thought he had a chance.
I love those catnappers!
We did this with a dog. Sent him to Grandma's!
I committed this EXACT CRIME with a neighbor's cat 🐈⬛ in 2014! He peed on something ONE TIME so they made him live 100% outside. This is Ohio. We have cold winters and at least 4 weeks of +90⁰F heat in the summer. The cat was a slightly chubby, black shorthair. He had a tail that was way too skinny for his body, a pronounced underbite, permanent bug eyes, a weird patch of brown fur shaped like a crescent moon, and instead of meowing he made this weird noise that sounded like "Maaahhhh! Mah-mah! Mah-mah! "Maaaaaaaahhhhh! He was so sweet too. VERY cuddly.
He wanted human attention SO BADLY! His humans would just pour him a whole bag of food once a week and then ignore him. He made friends with my cat and that's when I said f*ck it. This is my cat now!
The assholes didn't even notice he was missing FOR FIVE MONTHS! Then when they realized he was "missing" they didn't do a damn thing to find him other than to ask a few neighbors if they'd see him. This solidified any doubts I had about stealing him.
Finnegan Kearns lived another 9 years with us. For those 9 years he never once experienced stale food or hunger, got too cold, got too hot, got ignored, had to sleep on concrete or got forced outside to fend for himself. He was very affectionate and got tons of chin scratches every day for those 9 years. He died in my arms. The last thing he saw was the face of his rescuer and protector, who he knew loved him very much. This was sad, of course, but Finn didn't die alone and abandoned. He didn't die with no one holding him and softly petting him. To me, that's a win.
Love you, Finny Boy! Miss you! 🐈⬛💜
@@MeganVictoriaKearns thank you so much for saving that poor baby from those evil abusers.
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Your beautiful story brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for sharing it with us. 🙂
My father died 8 years ago. He played Civilization every day on Steam and his account is still on my friends list. When I visit my mother, I secretly make sure that Steam continues to start automatically with his account.
Whenever my mother starts the computer, I get a message that my father is online.
The confession about tickling her in laws ear with her tongue rings loudly for me. At my mother's funeral, my uncle, who is only 2 months older than I, came in for a hug on meeting up, and as I was saying hello, etc, I bit him on his neck. It WAS talked about..Monica giving her uncle a hickey!!
Dang, how embarrassing!😅😆
The two cups of tea really got me.
I worked at a Bob Evans restaurant while I was in college. There was a lovely group of elderly folks who came in around 4pm a few days a week. One guy always ordered 2 entrees. About half of the 2nd entree was eaten by the time they would leave so all us servers didn't think much of it. Dude must just really like the food here.
So fast forward. The guy bought the meal for his wife, who had died in 1978. (This was 2001). The reason half her food was always eaten was that she was a very petite person and had a little quirk about her where she would always get people to eat some of her food, because she could never finish it.
I can't decide if this is incredibly sweet or incredibly sad. Maybe a bit of both? I think the coolest thing about this guy is that he has acquired some amazingly supportive friends. No one shamed him or confronted him with logic or teased him about it. You don't have friends like that in your life unless you deserve them.
I worked there another 2.5 years and by then I was always the waitress they requested if I was working that day. When I told them I was not going to be working at Bob Evans anymore after that day, every person in that group insisted I give them my address. I got Christmas cards from all 8 of them that year. (One lady always put a $10 bill inside it, lol! 😆) As time passed I would get 7 cards a year, then 6, then 5... idk why told this long ass story but I guess I felt like someone out there either needed to hear it or would enjoy it in some way.
I'm shocked if you have read this far, but I am so thankful. It brought up memories that are, overall, very happy ones. 🍰🍽☕💜☕🍽🍰
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Thank you. Sweet and sad are two sides of the same coin.
My dear Dad spent 15 years caring for my Mum through dementia. He was utterly devoted to her. She died 4 years ago but still says goodnight to her.
@@Aaron628318 That's very sweet and very sad. His devotion to her is (unfortunately) a rare thing. They were both lucky to have experienced such a strong love. Hard to find that.
Me too. I openly cried the entire video because of that one.
"Unintentionally Married"
Now that's a nice guy!
Clearly, it worked fine.
@@dannypipewrench533 You’d be surprised how many people stay unhappily married
@@DeathnoteBB Well, I guess we could ask the guy.
My girlfriend and I had an open sexual relationship. It was her idea as she liked girls as well as guys and didn't want to give them up. I could relate being bi myself. The week before I was supposed to meet her parents I went to a gay bathhouse and spent time with an older gentleman. Now my girlfriend warned me to avoid talking about the openness of our relationship as her father was a Baptist minister and very devout and religious not to mention judgmental. Imagine my shock and his when I was introduced to her parents only to be shaking hands with the same gentleman I spent the night with days before. I think his shock was greater. Later we had "the talk" alone in his study. We agreed to never mention our encounter to anyone and he agreed to never speak badly of me to his daughter. My girlfriend was so relieved that her Dad and I got along so well. If only she knew.
doubt it nerd
Yeah this seems kind of fake
Isn't there some place better you can post this weird degenerate bullshit?
Open relationships I have no problem with, it's the secret ones that are gross.
🤣😂 that piss in the aftershave one is funny af! Keep doing you gal. Get some good lawyers and get that POS out of your life. X
some made me laugh, some made my heart ache - the loneliness felt when your beloved parent is gone, or, your beloved partner. So much said by so many in so few words… powerful. Thank you, I always enjoy your videos, but especially this type
that mum with dementia being so happy about always being able to find her cigarette lighter, kind as it is, gives me pause. If she's that bad off...how long til she forgets to put one out and the house burns down?
Lighters go out on their own if you don't put enough pressure on the switch/trigger. If she forgets to remove her fingers and just holds it, that's another possible risk though
@@tiggyvolts9076 I'm sure they meant the cigarettes.
It’s extremely hard to light anything on fire with a lit cigarette. Also almost all furniture and carpet these days is deliberately made to be fire resistant.
More concerning with dementia would be something like turning on a stove burner and forgetting.
Loved them all! Cried, laughed and almost fell off the chair with a few. Thank you for starting my day!
I always hate it when people tell what they did to their cheating spouse who lives with them. Shhhh! Stop warning other cheaters!
Haha, i was just thinking i wish I thought of that!!
@@JustConfused_24-7 🤣💚
These are so good. I enjoyed them very much. Good start to my day!
I love the complaint box one😂😂
My sister ran away from home when I was 14. some years later my father was dying of cancer in our home. He had multiple tumors, and one in the brain that made him deteriorate more and more over the course of a year. In the end he was blind and nearly crazy with fear of dying. It was truly horrible. One evening I went into his room and he asked „Is it you xy“ thinking I was my sister who he hadn’t seen in years. I don’t know why but I said „yes“. He then asked „Is everything ok between us“ and I - even though he had been a horrible person and an even more horrible father - had seen him suffer more than enough and wanted to give him at least a little peace and said „yes“. He sighed and I think it really meant something to him, a couple of days later he died. Ten years later after my mom had died as well I found a note that implied that my father had sexually abused my sister….
So basically he died thinking my sister had forgiven him..
I never told her and will never tell her…
Someone being unpleasant is no excuse to match the behaviour and throw their property into the water
That was a great mixture, nice selections!
There are very few of these that I would classify as "dark" secrets. Most I would just classify as normal secrets.
These are more wholesome stories than darkest secrets
10 years of unintentional marriage cause he couldn't break her heart sounds like he was lucky. Most marriages I know of that were completely intentional didn't make it more than half that long.
2:01 Genius! It'd be worth learning common phrases (and distinguishing) in a dozen of languages for such situations.
These are some very interesting messages. Some I feel very bad for. It really shows how different all our personalities are as humans, and how different all our brains work. I guess if you just admit things sometimes, the pain lifts a little.
A lot of these are not very "dark", in fact many of them are very touching and heartwarming. And you're never too old for Lego.😺
Roller coaster of emotions. Like the guy who sniffed up his cats dirt, I did something similar with toast crumbs in a napkin. Also no one to share with.
My mom accidentally put a stink bug in her mouth and bit into it because she thought it was a crumb of whatever she was eating and didn't really look at it
@@Alex-f7v8z oh my!
1:07 I'm doing exact the same thing, with the same intention.
My father figure (never knew my real dad) always came to stay with us for a couple of days for Christmas - never missed a year - he died on Christmas Eve night after saying he’ll pick me up the next day for a surprise and also promised a holiday to somewhere I always wanted to go (never did). That was 6 years ago when I was a kid. Had trust issues, separation anxiety and more since. Christmas will never be the same without him, I still wait for the phone to ring for him to say he’ll be arriving soon.
He always kept each and every Father’s Day card I made for him since I was 4 years old, 6 or more cards. He will always be the best father to me.
I am so glad you had such a loving man in your life
@@carolhamm7645 thank you
1:07 My laptop has a hard time working properly because it's slowly dying sadly. It can't run everything and struggles to keep working properly when I open a second tab on Google. A while ago I found out it will work slightly better if I'm nice to it. As long as I greet it while its running or thank it for something simple like starting up it will run smoothly for a while. The exact same thing works with my parents laptop that is in an even worse condition than mine
That's actually kind of scary.
Yup definitely know cases where thanking the computer seems to help. Unfortunately, it only works for a short while so be prepped to get a new one soon.
1:48 Met a girl the Christmas before a leap year. On 29th Feb she said "Will you marry me?!" with a smile on her face. I thought she was joking and said yes. She then proceeded to tell all her family and friends that we were engaged!
So did you get married?
@@PoodleParti Nope. We split up about a year later
Thanks for the update!
Taking advantage of those nice Americans! I am glad you feel that way.
I'm not the only one who thanks Siri/Alexa, not quite the same reason, but waiting for the day she says "You're welcome"
I do the same when I see kids with glasses. Alot of the time they do have cool glasses.
2:01. Good for him! 🤣
5:25 that's love right there
Nothing says 'Nice to meet you', like frenching a mans ear🤣🤣🤣🤣
I LMAO off at that one.
That ticket one is sweet, but I don't think it works that way if I am understanding it correctly. If there are five tickets on sale and you add them all to the cart, they are still available for everyone to buy only until you officially buy them.
5:00 now that one i actually laughed at :) my darkest secret? i wish i was a bus driver :))
6:24 why would you ask your wife ? Tell her what your student did , and that you are going to buy a lego set. No need to keep it a secret , and yes, she can have a go with it :))
These were great and touching. I particularly liked the poor, mistreated cat and the bus driver ones. Oh, and the designer bag at the bottom of Sydney harbour. Brilliant!
And I, too always thank ‘Alexa’ because it’s polite. 😃👍
1:17 this is the saddest thing I have ever heard. But also I like to sit In my tree house and pretend that my (now deceased) dog is sitting underneath listening to me talk my day and all the things I now have to do without her by my side 💕 🥹
1:06 it's iconic
This is actually very clever.
@@MeganVictoriaKearns it is . Period!
Awww I'm happy that engagement then marriage worked out
1:48 Hey, if it works, it works.
7:58 if you can prove he is having an affair , you can get a divorce and get a judge to kick him out. but you'd have to pay him half the value of the house. i wonder if " he is still paying the bills " has anything to do with it ? :)
2:53 This one…
Oh my god 😭
This is what is wrong with the world today: people think they can commit a FELONY (stealing a $1000 Prada handbag) because they think they are serving JUSTICE.
I bet that if someone saw what you did and decided that JUSTICE demands that THIEVES should swim home, “I DID NOTHING WRONG” would probably been your last words. AND THOSE WORD WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONG!
I bet the woman knew he was just giving her a ring and not proposing - she reacted the way she did to trick him into marriage.
That last one.
Brilliant.
I nearly died at 2:57. Had to reenact with my husband. That’s when I died for real.
1:55 she knew what was best for you.
0:48 I do not mean to flex, but I love wearing glasses, and have been since I was 8. But I never liked sun glasses.
4:59 This sounds like the Janitor from Scrubs.
my dark secret: when i die (hopefully a long time from now) it will be months before anyone notices and even then it's only because they came to evict me for not paying rent that my body will be discovered
Me too.... I'm in a house though, so depending on season, it will be probably 6+ months before I get found....all bills are auto pay. There are a lot of us like this....
I hardly ever ask Siri anything, but when I do, I always ask her how she is, and thank her afterwards.
i've been keeping my religion a secret from my father, now i'm a middle aged man, still a secret.
3:18 ...bro
I'm not crying. You're crying.
Lmao, I really loved that last one!
*Me: OMG that is so gross!
*Also me: Hahahahaa! 😆😆😆
*Me again: He totally deserved it!
*Yep. Still me: I want to be friends with this woman. 👭💜
(Edited for spelling)
I peed in the cup of tea I made for my horrible patronising boss on the last day of my temping job, at the time I thought it served him right but now I think he just had a part of me in his system which makes me feel icky lol.
When I was in the military my Staff Sergeant was sexually harassing me so when his wife and children went out of town I made him a pan of brownies with Ex-Lax in it! He stopped after that; no regrets on my part!
Many of these were hilarious but the "Prada incident" one has me worried a bit.
We don't know the context and the whole story, but I mean if you want the racist to learn the lesson, this clearly isn't the best way: They will not link this incident to them being racist but only think of it as a strange misfortune and would not fix their attitude because of this.
Saying racist slurs is a hate crime in some countries but the destruction of someone's property is also a crime. I get the op's point (to ruin the person's day) but commiting crimes to fight against crimes is a very bizarre logic.
I thought it exquisite.
Most people just like to use racism to excuse their own shitty behavior. Anytime someone tells me they're anti-racist, what they're really telling me is that they're a narcissistic piece of shit who likes to make themselves as much of a pain in the ass as possible to everyone around them, and they just use that as their shield. So fuck anyone who claims to be an anti-racist, and fuck anyone who even talks about racism.
For the unintentionally married for ten years; has it been a good ten years?! The people want to know!!!
Last girl needs to file for divorce immediately
Alex, I'll take "Things that never happened" for $200. Also, a few of these people need some harsh life lessons of their own.
Many of these posts are so wholesome and sweet😊😊😊
I erased Alexa from my tablet, it kept asking where is Brian ? Or did you call Brian ? He had died ?, it was awful.
Why is no-one talking about 7:47 its beautiful I'll try this one day
The fiance phone one made me cry. The marathon one made me laugh out loud, as did the BOOBS one
I cried at 7:22.
The thing is that even though I'm a good, fast reader some of these went by so quick that I had to keep pausing the screen. Annoying!
I stop the video and click the line at the bottom to see the next post.
4:30 My Mum used to do that with my sister's gold fish but the last one really did live to be 26.
riiight
1:40 racist or not , it's a crime to steal and damage another persons property ( doesnt matter if its a $1,000 handbag , or a $1 lighter ) and you are so " brave " to do it when the owner wasnt looking . try that round me and you'll follow my item into the water.
Agreed. Yeah, racists are a-holes. But what's in the bag? Someone's medicine? A cell phone? Lots of cash? Credit cards? You can really screw up someone's life by doing that.
Not just a "funny" prank. Many better options to deal with someone like that.
Yeah, this one bugs me for legal reasons. Yes, racism is detestable but they actually have a RIGHT to think that way whereas nobody has a right to steal and destroy property.
@@atalleywak but they actually have a RIGHT to think that way agreed . there was a sci fi story from decades ago called " dreaming is a private thing " or something . what someone ' thinks ' is their affair . they can hate someone from a different race , or sex , or political persuasion , or religion , football team. Its up to them. Its usually born of ignorance or fear , or both. I try to feel sorry for them , instead of hating them. If i can, i'll try to inform or educate them , but a lot of the time, they are so fixed in their ideas, that they can not learn. " there are none so blind as those who will not see " . If they wont learn , i'll walk away from them. why waste my time with an idiot. It is when their views turn to action and that action starts to hurt others , whether by physical action or by passing a law. Thats when i try to help those who suffer from such actions. All it takes for evil to succeed , is for good men to do nothing. good quotes and phrases , but at some time , we all have to stand up and be counted. or we all fall together .
This is great
I have two star tattoos on the side of my face , one Halloween I added more and later spent an hour trying to figure out why they would not wash off ( my tats ) I am an idiot lol.
0:27 tho
@1:50 that guy is awesomely fortunate.
1:03 STOPPP LMAOO
1:29
Poor dog😅
1:05 Same. Especially with Sciencephile the AI.
I always say thank you to Siri. Can’t help it 🤷🏻♀️ my upbringing
In sixth grade I found out my eyes suck, lol. I didn't want glasses and my parents let me get contacts :) Now there's a surgery to fix our dumb eyes! I think we'll be able to fix them before it's a problem in the near future.
The day I was not the guilty from killing the Fijian woman's dog (found my Irish Wolfhound whining) because of a dispute I live still guilty I couldn't save it. Don't ever tell me Pitbull dogs are angels, please. Ever. That poor dog is in a better place now.
The last one is unbelievable
3:00
Years ago when backpacking through Europe and staying in Utah schools there were two young women heavy southern accent the kept leaving their money laying on the bed. Baby it was just like Play money to them. Also they had a wind-up alarm clock and it ticked so loud all night long one of the other people in the room stuck in the hallway. They were so annoying so after the third time that they wrapped money laying on their bed I took it. It was worth about $10. Wow I've never told anybody this