In case you didn’t know, people are strange. No, really!
Lifestyle :
Most normal folks assume that because they live their lives a certain way or respect certain norms of cleanliness and decorum, everyone else does as well. NOT TRUE!
The sad reality is that people are strange. Or, to put it another way, you can’t visit everyone’s home, you can’t sleep over in everyone’s guest room, you can’t have dinner at everyone’s table, and you probably should stop participating in the office potluck.
Yes, often to our own demise, we frequently assume that every bed sheet in every guest room is clean and that every home-cooked meal has been handled with the utmost hygienic care. After all, that’s how it would be in OUR homes, so it must be in everyone’s home, right? WRONG!
People are strange — and here’s proof from half a dozen recent submissions on REDDIT:
1.) “The cat was on the counter chewing on the ham. It was then served to us: chew marks, hair, and all. The server was adamant that it wasn’t the cat, even though several of us saw it and moved the cat away. Then we got lectured for not appreciating our hairy, saliva-soaked food.”
2.) “After we ate dinner at someone’s house, they put the plates on the floor. The dog came over and licked them clean. They then picked up the plates and put them STRAIGHT IN THE CUPBOARD! I immediately went to the bathroom, threw up, and told my partner I felt sick and wanted to go home.”
3.) “Having a bat crawl on my foot and them saying, ‘Oh yeah, we have an infestation of bats. They fall out of the ceiling all the time.’ I had to get rabies shots.”
4.) “I visited my aunt in a different state when I was 11. In the room I slept in, there was a light-up Jesus painting. It put off about as much light as a nightlight, which was comforting until the parade of roaches began marching across his face single-file. I’m not lying when I tell you I went to therapy for that little gem.”
5.) “The host cut her finger, dripped blood in our bowl of popcorn, used her bleeding hand to pick out the visibly bloody pieces of popcorn, and then gave me the bowl to eat from.”
6.)Â Â “I went to the home of my boss for a barbecue. He had a giant dog, a great dane I believe, and it was allowed to roam all over the house with the guests. The dog bumped into people and spilled their drinks and food, but my boss brushed it off saying he was a member of the family and was allowed to attend the party, too. Well, as the boss tended to the grill, I personally saw the dog lick some of the meats waiting to go on the grill. He also lapped out of the large bowl of barbecue sauce the boss was using to baste the meats. The boss saw it too but said nothing. He just dipped the mop into the sauce and kept right on basting as if nothing happened. Needless to say, I didn’t eat ANYTHING that day. After remembering an office potluck where everybody got diarrhea all of a sudden, I never ate anything from the boss again.”
—u/shesaid212
Do you have any ‘People Are Strange’ tales? If so, share them in the comments below!
OK WASSUP! discusses Lifestyle:
People are strange — and so is their food and their homes.
People are nasty is what this should be called.