You know, folks, you don’t have to share EVERYTHING about yourselves.
My dad and stepdad were (and still are) friends.
I wanted to die.

Any time they’re together, it creeps into my head at least once."
anonymous
2.
He said it right in front of our HR head too."
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OMGitsaClaire
3.
“I worked at Target in the beauty department, where we did free samples on the weekends.
One weekend, the product we were displaying was an aftershave.

He was the one that got away, and I have never truly gotten over him.
monikap6
4.
My friend left the guy bleeding and unconscious on the ground in the middle of winter in New England.

If he wasn’t beaten to death, there’s a good chance he succumbed to hypothermia.”
I definitely needed a drink after hearing that."
“My mom got dinner with a high school friend, his brother, and his father.

autumnlee616
8.
Then she walked away.”
moonlitrat
9.

“I used to work with a woman who we called Little Miss TMI.
She couldn’t understand why people would avoid her.”
ancywalrus88
10. caelesto
11.

Like, how did we even get there?"
(This was about 10 years before my husband was born.)
My mother-in-law was very sleepy, and her guard was definitely down for a moment.

No one ever knew that they were having problems at all.
My mother-in-law never elaborated or brought it up again."
She told her parents, and they all met to discuss the situation.

He broke down crying.
He talked his parents into letting him go to therapy after that."
“I have a coworker who WAAAAY overshares.

I’ve reported him so many times… saraho4a20298d2
15.
THEN she told me she was Jeffrey Dahmer’s prom date.”
nastymule22
16.

YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT.
SHE BANGED MY FUCKING DAD.
Oh, and that’s not all, folks!

THEY DID IT IN MY ROOM!
If you’re wondering how I know the room part, I found cum all over my sheets.
I ditched her soon after that and could never look at my dad the same way again.

Thanks for ruining my relationship with my father, Carol!"
“I’m 52 and just found out that my brother and I have different mothers.
I mean, we grew up in the same home.

Had pics together as young kids.
I just thought we were full brothers and ignored it when folks said I looked nothing like my brother.
It made sense after the fact.

My mom and I both had kidney failure, and we needed transplants.
So did two of her siblings.
It was solely from my mom’s side.

My dad and my brother never had those issues at all.
So, it made sense except for the fact that I was lied to my whole life.”
magicalknight55
18.

He sheepishly told me that he couldn’t.
I asked why not.
He decided to renounce his beliefs and go to college when he got out, and he did."
AXJ66
19.
I had to delete those records."
That was all my first year teaching."
He claimed that he refused and sounded a bit traumatized by the incident."
ericmcauliffe
21.
“I worked in a gift shop in a swanky neighborhood.
So now she’s left with all the money.
It was very creepy.
I was 18 and alone in that shop.”
I don’t really remember exactly how I responded, but I was freaked out for sure.
Another week or so passed before he was arrested at his house down the street from my mom’s.
He did some prison time, and I lost touch with him."
“I’m a nurse.
When I was fairly new, I cared for an 80-year-old lady who was extremely nice.
She’d come into the ER by ambulance for a prolapsed rectum.
I’m fine.'
mustaaaaard
24.
“I am very open-minded and interested when it comes to alternative lifestyles and hobbies.
I’m still mind-blown 20 years later.”
problematik
25.
I almost passed out in a state of shock.”
“When I was a teacher, several teachers disclosed, unprompted, that they had incurable STDs.
Mostly, cancer-causing strains of HPV or warts.
Get your HPV vaccine, y’all!”
“I accidentally found out that my uncle was not my uncle by blood.
So she and my grandfather decided to adopt a boy.
Then, she ended up having another son after this.
I dont know if my other uncle (the youngest brother) knows.
But Ive been sworn to secrecy.”
“After I had my son, we didn’t get him circumcised.
They’d been waiting for me and told me to join ‘the circle of trust.’
She is 20 years younger than him, by the way.
“Knowing exactly what I was looking for, I found it in his surfing app history almost immediately.
That was the end of our relationship, though he begged to go to couples therapy.
I am glad to have got away from that toxic b.s.
He also showed me proof of the DMs they’d sent him.
“A coworker shared that a police officer groped her as a teen.
Awful, yes, but she shared this in an icebreaker ‘getting to know you’ session!
She asked me to keep it a secret, but that was too much.
I told her she had a week to tell her fiancee or I would.
She ended up telling him, and they called off the engagement.
They co-parent now, but damn, was that a bomb to drop.”
B is usually pretty conservative but said, ‘SHE’S NEVER EVEN HAD ONE MASTURBATING?
DOES SHE EVEN MASTURBATE?
EVEN I GOTTA CUM SOMETIMES!!!!’
purpletruck35
37.
“Not me, but my mom.
I always wondered why my grandmother felt the urge to tell her daughter-in-law this.”
“I worked with a guy who could not have been more opposite of my values and politics.
He was a loud, conservative Christian patriarch capitalist jot down.
I am none of those things.
We really got on each other’s nerves, and the project was suffering as a result.
He shared his whole story about how he made some shady financial deals years ago and went to prison.
He lost his business and nearly lost his family.
He spent years repairing the damage.
I appreciated his vulnerability in sharing his story.
It made me see him in a new light, and we actually became friends as a result.
Who knew it was possible?”
She said she didn’t want to bother me with something dumb like her problems, but I insisted.
I love to listen to people.
With a deep sigh, she said, ‘My boyfriend just tried to kill my daughter.’
This was at, like, 6 p.m. on a Thursday!”
“I’m a teacher.
“I share a small office with two other women.
One coworker revealed to me that the other coworker was a virgin.
She has never been because she thought you had to have had sex for it to matter.'
That was not her place to tell that personal information.”
The fire investigators ruled it an unknown-cause accident, so they never copped to it.
It influenced their relationship with and the opinion they had of their dad.
She finally admitted when they were in their 30s that she had a history of cheating on him first.
Way to make him out to be the villain for their entire lives.”
sparklyslytherin
45.
They were social and liked to host parties.
“Nobody knew because our friend was smarter and knew how to cover her tracks better.
It’s almost always something that has happened in the past.
Nothing is happening now.
It’s mostly just their conscience.
“Not me, my wife.
But my mom also told her that my maternal grandmother my mom’s mom caused the crash.
Even I didn’t know this.
I don’t think it was a secret as much as something that was never, ever talked about.
Anyway, you’re free to imagine how shocked and uncomfortable my wife was learning this.”
This came up because I caught one of our employees stealing money from our organization.
Houston, Texas, is wild.
She thought her ‘love story’ showed there are times when embezzlement is justified.”
“Back at my first job, a new coworker started who kind of struck me as a partier.
They said it so casually and actually said it was an ‘overreaction.’
Sure, I’m the unprofessional one.”
They were well-known and well-loved by basically everyone for being kind and generous neighbors.
He was never seen or heard from again.”
“There was a bare-bones investigation, but nothing ever came of it.
It’s that she told me the story so calmly, so evenly, and so unapologetically.
I still think about her.”