“My cousin picked up a hitchhiker about 20 years ago.

My cousin was hungry, so they stopped at McDonald’s and grabbed the hitchhiker some breakfast, too.

Then, they dropped him off where he said he was headed.

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“She would steal my underwear, wear them during that time of the month, and put them back in my underwear drawer, unwashed."

No big deal.”

“The next morning, my cousin’s watching the morning news and sees that hitchhiker’s face.

Dude was a serial killer and had killed someone that picked him up.

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Cousin calls the cops and they have him come in.

Turns out the hitcher had killed the verynextperson after my cousin who had given him a ride.

He’d killed a few people who had given him rides, that was his MO.

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They asked the hitcher why he didn’t kill my cousin.

I couldn’t kill someone that bought me breakfast.'”

u/TrailMomKat

“I had something similar happen to me.

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I was hungry so I asked the driver to drive by McDonald’s first.

And I got a bunch of food and invited the taxi driver as well.

We had a good conversation and later on, he dropped me off.

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But because I bought him food he didn’t go through with it.

u/NikEy

2.

“Someone made brownies with ground meat in them for a church potluck.

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My vegetarian friend discovered this when she bit into one.

She was more confused and horrified about their existence than she was upset about eating meat.

I thought she had to be wrong.

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Then I tried them.

I was disgusted and really, really, really confused.”

“Years later, I found out that apparently, this was a thing.

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u/Unfey

3. u/puppycatpie

4.

“My roommate poisoned my food.

She started out with ‘harmless’ pranks like putting salt in my jello before it set.

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Then she put bleach in my pasta water, as if I wouldn’t fucking smell bleach noodles.

u/Nuttonbutton

5.

“I asked my ocular oncologist what the long acronym ‘FUE’ he wrote that I had meant.

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It’s been called that ever since.”

“During the same weird cancer episode, a neurologist said my brain was ‘unremarkable.’

I mean, he’s right in so many ways, but I was delighted to hear it.”

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u/zerbey

6.

“I showered at my date’s place after staying over and asked for a towel.

He gave me one which had literal skin flakes on.

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I asked for a clean one, and he asked what I meant.

u/G1ngerbeer

7.

He kept trying to call me from jail.”

u/poor_decision

8.

“My ex-coworker got fired for sleeping with too many customers.

Eventually, management caught on when several women were asking for him daily.”

u/ppppppppppython

9.

It was fermented wrong and covered in mold, which she didn’t seem to understand was bad.

The vegetables were basically half liquified, and it smelled like dumpster juice.”

u/No_Pear_2326

10. u/Zen4rest

11.

“My dad’s first cousin is serial killer Kenneth McDuff.

u/lolabam3

12.

“My uncle got out and the man drove away with his girlfriend and pulled a weapon on her.

She immediately opened the door and jumped out while he was driving.

My uncle and his girlfriend reconvened and were okay, but were trying to process what happened.

It was Ted Bundy.”

u/rebellyous

13.

I also later found out she was running a grow-op in the basement.”

u/SlyGuy011

14.

When I complained, they locked me out of the apartment.

I called the police, who let me in and scolded the family.

It was a nightmare.

I finally got out of there and never looked back.”

u/LauraPa1mer

15.

“My date squeezed a disgusting amount of mustard in her hand then ate it.”

u/buckeyemountain

16. u/Ok-Cheetah-9125

17.

“Someone at work finally lost their shit at the photocopier.

They were escorted out by security immediately.”

u/SplatThaCat

18.

“I got a vasectomy, and the female doctor said, ‘You’ve got really nice anatomy.’

I couldn’t believe what she had just said to me.

u/Mr_Elroy_Jetson

19.

I’ve been trying to find one ever since.”

u/TheTurningWorm

20.

It worked, too.

For the record, any heavy book or hard object could work, he just advised a Bible.”

u/Bagel-luigi

21.

“My coworker got caught jerking off into the milk carton in the lunch room fridge.”

u/certified_weirdbot

22.

His wife, same…

The nurses who complied are in prison, too.

Two doctors gave their triplicate pads to him and signed off on the death certs.

Yep; theyre in prison, too.”

u/Wecanbuildittogether

23.

I had no idea she was engaged."

u/Rotmap91

24.

“We had a potluck today, and someone brought some Doritos.

People started eating them and complaining that they tasted like dirt.

We looked at the bag, and it had a promo forMockingjay: Part 1.

The chips expired in 2014!

This was a mixed department potluck, and we havent found the person that brought the nine-year-old chips.”

u/Chicken_Scented_Fart

25.

“Serving John Cusack was terrible.

He put his muddy boots up on the table and spent three hours drinking tea.

Did not tip.”

u/StyrkeSkalVandre

26.

Cue everyone looking at each other like WTF?"

u/trguiff

27.

“Years ago, me and my ex-husband went to see a movie with an older colleague of his.

His daughter worked there.

u/singingsilence

28.

“I owed hundreds of dollars to the company, and they sent me to collections.

I called and told them what happened.

Then he lived there freeloading for months.

I finally moved out of that place and never had a roommate again.”

u/junctionalMustard

29.

“My colleague evidently robbed a bank on their lunch break.

Came back like nothing happened then the cops showed up and took him down, it was crazy.”

u/Bob_the_brewer

30.

I said, ‘Well, yeah…the cost of living has increased a ton since then.'”

“This motherfucker straight-up said, ‘No it hasn’t.’

He started working there in 1992.

This conversation happened in like 2017 (about a year after I started working there).

Again, he is the director of accounting.”

u/pjsans

31.

“My coworker left for two weeks for her wedding and honeymoon.

She came back married to another guy than the one she planned to marry.”

“We also had onsite daycare that her toddler daughter attended.

She used to call all the men she saw ‘daddy.’

Serious bummer all around.”

u/auntitrixi

32.

“This was when I managed an Aldi store and he was applying as an associate.

u/Moist-Pickle-2736

33.

Rode it back the next morning.

Mans a nutter.”

u/invincible-zebra

Shout-out to all these Redditors for sharing their (wild) stories.

Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.