Craziest “Oh, They Weren’t Joking” Moments
Sometimes people say or do things that are so ridiculous that they must be putting on a show. Only they’re not. These Redditors shared their weirdest, most embarrassing, and most shocking “oh, they weren’t joking”
moments, involving unintended insults, dangerous situations, and pink fuzzy handcuffs. Have you ever had one of those moments?
1. Playing God
I work at in office support. I had a job ticket come in one day. When I read it, I wanted to bust out laughing. It said to "dim the sun" with a name and no other info. I showed it around, and everyone in my office laughed too.
A month later, we get a call that we did not do a request. Yep, this was the one asking to dim the sun. Now, you think it would maybe be that their blinds were not closing or the window tint had an issue. NO.
When we got there they didn't want to close their blinds; they wanted the sun to be actually dimmed because it was not that bright when they started working in that office. I had to walk away, literally speechless.
We eventually had to talk to their manager and clarify that we can not dim the sun and that the request was unreasonable.
2. Customer Gone Bad
This happened when my former workplace got held up. The thing was, we knew the guy doing the holding up. He came in pretty regularly and was the kind of customer that would joke around with us and us with him.
So one day there are no other customers, and he comes in and tells my co-worker that we’re being held up and to let him into our stockroom. Uncomfortable, but thinking it's just a bad joke, my co-worker gives kind of a forced laugh.
The guy absolutely freaks out, and goes from 0 to 100 in an instant. He starts yelling for myself and other coworkers to get down, pulls out a nine millimeter and shoves it in the co-worker's face.
He got away with several thousand dollars worth of cell phones and a few hundred in cash, but everyone was ok. And oh yeah, they caught him like an hour later at his house. As I said, we knew who he was and gave the authorities his name and address.
They were “familiar” with him as well.
3. Don’t Be A Fool
My school, for some reason, announced they were millions of dollars in debt and were going to be lowering the budget. This meant worse food, fewer teachers, etc. But there was one big error. They did this on April Fool's day. Everyone, obviously, laughed, even the teachers. Then the next day the deans talked about it again and everyone was like...wait what. Teachers resigned.
4. In A Simulation
I was at a Halloween party dressed up as a Sim, with the plumbob and everything. It was at my (at the time) boyfriend's co-worker's house, and most of the people there were his co-workers as well.
I was chatting with some people and the Sims came up, along with a few jokes about their weird behavior in the game.
I made a joke about how it was a good thing there wasn't any furniture between me and the bathroom, or I would have to just pee all over the floor.
One of the guys in the small group said, very seriously, "This is someone else's house, don't ever do that". I laughed at first (along with everyone else) because it didn't seem like he could possibly be serious.
But he was actually very angry, and proceeded to tell the host that I had threatened to pee on his floor. I was just a little embarrassed…
