I have never experienced or seen in real life the "Bad player is actually good player," and hustles me out of money cliche. Cliche. A main character is playing pool with the Antagonist that SUCKS at Pool for about $5 a game. After about 10 games and the Main Character has $50, the Antagonist suggests they play for $20 a game because he wants a chance to get his $50 back. The Main Character thinks,"This is going to be like taking candy from a baby(Another cliched phrase, ;) this guy's TERRIBLE at Pool, but I'll humor him and get even more money. They agree to play pool for $20 a game. All of a sudden, the Antagonist gets REALLY good and the Main Character ends up giving him $100 after 5 games. The Antagonist now doubled his money and the Main Character lost everything despite being up at first. The Antagonist admits he is a pool pro who pretended to SUCK at Pool when the stakes were low but when they were raised, he went back to playing good. I have never experienced or seen this hustle in real life.

I have never experienced or seen the "Asking non pregnant but fat woman when she was due," cliche in real life. I surmise that People in real life just don't want to go there.

Sitting down in a restaurant and asking for just a BEER or a "glass of wine", without them asking my "What kind" lol On TV, they will just say, "I'll have a beer!" I tried it once just to see the server's reaction lol

I've never seen someone pick of the phone in real life, dial the operator and say, "Operator get me the police!" Again, as a kid I tried that, just to see what would happen, I had planned on saying it was a false alarm if I got connected... but the operator was like, "Uhhhh.... I can get you the NUMBER, is this an emergency?"


I've never seen anyone be able to disguise them self so that people in their life don't recognize them.... Like on TV all someone has to do is put on a wig or hat, fake glasses and fake beard and/or mustache if they're a man and literally NO ONE, not even their own spouse recognizes them lol Didn't that happen on I Love Lucy, Lucy and Ethel dressed up in wigs, and Fred and Ricky didn't even recognize them? lol

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

About the washing dishes, when I was a kid, that's what people told me would happen if we couldn't pay the bill lol

Sorry if this is OT, but here's one that actually DID happen to me. When someone is having a bday and is expecting all their friends to have a surprise party ready and then they are planning on acting surprised, but find out there is no party. Once it was my birthday and I was SURE everyone at work was gonna surprise me with a party, because they did for everyone else, so I was expecting it any moment, but.... no party, maybe one or 2 happy bdays, which hurt more because that showed they KNEW it was my bday but didn't have a celebration like for everyone else... and I gotta tell ya, it HURTS, and pissed me off lol

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were
having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

About the "Washing dishes if you can't pay restaurant tab," a lot of places wouldn't want to take the risk of a lawsuit if untrained person washes dishes in the restaurant and then injures themselves due to not being trained to work in the restaurant.

I have NEVER seen or experienced a dine and dash in real life, although I ended up not being able to pay my entire restaurant bill accidentally. What happened was that I had gotten a payday loan. When it was time to pay my installment, I was told I only owed $20 of the $120 installment. I paid that $20 and withdrew the $100 I planned to pay the installment and spent it. I still had roughly $25 in my account. At a Restaurant, I had a $10 gift card and I ordered roughly a $25 meal during Happy Hour. I used my $10 gift card and then tried to pay the roughly $15 balance that was left. The card reader said,"Declined." Me and the Waiter both thought maybe I didn't swipe the card the right way. I then swiped it the other way and it still said,"Declined." I was beginning to panic. I called my bank and I was told the $100 payment went through! :eek: So, I was now roughly $75 OVERDRAWN when I was roughly $25 up before I went to the restaurant! :eek:

I apologized and told the Restaurant I was actually overdrawn due to a payment unexpectedly going through, although I did have roughly $25 before going to the restaurant. They were incredibly nice and comped the $15 balance. :) That was incredibly nice of them because they could have easily called the Cops on me for that roughly $15 balance! :eek: In hindsight, I REALLY should have waited at least 24 hours before withdrawing the $100 even after I was told I only owed $20.

About the washing dishes, when I was a kid, that's what people told me would happen if we couldn't pay the bill lol

I wonder if they were telling the truth, or if this was just an urban legend to scare people. :lol:

I apologized and told the Restaurant I was actually overdrawn due to a payment unexpectedly going through, although I did have roughly $25 before going to the restaurant. They were incredibly nice and comped the $15 balance. :) That was incredibly nice of them because they could have easily called the Cops on me for that roughly $15 balance!

I'm not sure if they would've called the cops on someone for something like this, maybe just ban the customer for life.

Sorry if this is OT, but here's one that actually DID happen to me. When someone is having a bday and is expecting all their friends to have a surprise party ready and then they are planning on acting surprised, but find out there is no party. Once it was my birthday and I was SURE everyone at work was gonna surprise me with a party, because they did for everyone else, so I was expecting it any moment, but.... no party, maybe one or 2 happy bdays, which hurt more because that showed they KNEW it was my bday but didn't have a celebration like for everyone else... and I gotta tell ya, it HURTS, and pissed me off lol


That sucks. Sorry that happened. Did they throw a party for anyone else afterward because if they didn't, maybe something happened where they decided to no longer throw them for whatever reason (too much money and effort?), having nothing to do with you necessarily. Or maybe if they threw one for someone else, they thought you were the type that doesn't like surprise parties. A lot of people don't like them, believe it or not, so maybe they sensed you might not like one.

I have never experienced or seen the "Asking non pregnant but fat woman when she was due," cliche in real life. I surmise that People in real life just don't want to go there.
When I was a kid, I looked at an old photograph from my grandmother's 80th birthday.
I ended up asking if one of my father's cousins was pregnant despite looking too old for it.
Of course, she wasn't. :(
Nobody outside my immediate family heard it, but I was still chastised by my sister for it.

That sucks. Sorry that happened. Did they throw a party for anyone else afterward because if they didn't, maybe something happened where they decided to no longer throw them for whatever reason (too much money and effort?), having nothing to do with you necessarily. Or maybe if they threw one for someone else, they thought you were the type that doesn't like surprise parties. A lot of people don't like them, believe it or not, so maybe they sensed you might not like one.

It's kinda a long story I'd rather not get into, I was informed there was SORTA a reason they didn't have one for me, I was informed they usually only did them for CERTAIN people, but I felt I should have been in that category... BUT I've always been OVERLOOKED.... There used to be a somewhat "strange man" who was a little too "clingy", lets just say, who used to come in and he would give EVERYONE a birthday card... literally EVERYONE and follow them around talking half an hour... And I was the ONLY one who didn't get a bday card from the "strange man" :( I even teased him once and was like, "When am I gonna get MY bday card!?" and he was like, "Oh! You mean I didn't give you one?!" Like I say, I always have been overlooked

I had an ex Coworker who.... ALWAYS contributed to birthday parties and when it was HER birthday, no one threw her a party. She felt understandably annoyed. I was off on her birthday, and in fact, didn't even know her birthday, so I was completely off the hook, :crazy: But in all seriousness, how messed up that she didn't get a birthday party when she contributed to other people's birthdays? :(

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

Believe it or not when I was 12, I had a party and I wore an outfit I had just bought. One girl who came to the party had on the exact same outfit. It was so weird. :crazy: I didn't tell her to leave or anything but I felt weird the whole party over it. :lol:

I've never experienced being suddenly FROZEN in the shower if someone flushes the toilet or turns another faucet on the EXTREME way that it's always portrayed on TV lol .... Sure, there is a SLIGHT change in water temp when it happens but nothing that dramatic lol

I've never experienced being suddenly FROZEN in the shower if someone flushes the toilet or turns another faucet on the EXTREME way that it's always portrayed on TV lol .... Sure, there is a SLIGHT change in water temp when it happens but nothing that dramatic lol

Really? Oh, I have felt burning hot water sometimes when somebody flushes the toilet. I guess it was an old building, I don't know. Bad pipes, but those things do indeed happen.

Really? Oh, I have felt burning hot water sometimes when somebody flushes the toilet. I guess it was an old building, I don't know. Bad pipes, but those things do indeed happen.
That was indeed more common in the past, but it's been avoided in newer buildings.

^ That's good. I'm talking about many years ago when this would happen to me.

The issue with the water definitely does happen. My house, which was built in and around the early 1900s, has this issue. I had to yell at a relative a few months ago when she decided to turn on the kitchen faucet while an elderly relative was taking a shower.

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

I did, but not exactly in the comedic way that is often shown in movies. I was out at a nightclub with a friend who apparently had a huge drinking problem that I didn't know about until this incident happened. As soon as we entered the place, she started drinking beer after beer (like, eight in a row on an empty stomach) and became so drunk that she passed out stone cold in a little under an hour. Two bouncers picked her up just like you see in the movies (one holding each side), opened the door and dumped her outside like a sack of potatoes. :lol: I'm only laughing because she turned out to be a horrible human being, so I'm, like, "Whatever."

I've never seen or experienced the "People fan Celebrity/Royalty and feed them grapes while they lay back and relax," cliche in real life. I have never seen or experience a Celebrity demanding they have a bowl of M&Ms of just ONE color, usually green in real life, although I did something similar to myself. ;) I bought two Party Size kit Kat miniatures, assorted, and I separated all of the red kit kat miniatures and put them in their own bag and the black and white kit kat miniatures went into another bag, so I have a bag filled with only red kit kat miniatures! :D

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

Sadly, I did see a young woman thrown out of a car window by a bad man. :( She yelled to a friend to call the police and she was okay but her leg was broken.

I have never seen or experience a Celebrity demanding they have a bowl of M&Ms of just ONE color, usually green in real life, although I did something similar to myself.

That was based 100% on real life and to such an extent that it became rock show legend. David Lee Roth put in a clause in Van Halen's contract that said that there couldn't be any brown M&Ms backstage. He put it in there to test the crew setting up the show to make sure they had read the instructions. If he saw the M&Ms, he knew that the stage rigging wasn't safe.

Sadly, I did see a young woman thrown out of a car window by a bad man. :( She yelled to a friend to call the police and she was okay but her leg was broken.

Oh my God! :eek:

Oh my God! :eek:

It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life I think. I was stunned. I didn't know what I had seen at first. He threw her out and she screamed and then he drove off really fast. She lived in my apartment building and I later found out that he was an ex-boyfriend and he stole her car. The police found him and she got her car back, but he had dented it up really badly. She broke her leg and was on crutches and then she found a new apartment because I think the guy was stalking her. I could not believe the brutality I saw with my own eyes. I've never seen anything like that before or since. This was about five years ago. I'm glad she moved and she was not hurt worse. The car was probably going maybe 30 mph in a parking lot so if it had been on the street at a faster speed, she could have been killed. :(

It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life I think. I was stunned. I didn't know what I had seen at first. He threw her out and she screamed and then he drove off really fast. She lived in my apartment building and I later found out that he was an ex-boyfriend and he stole her car. The police found him and she got her car back, but he had dented it up really badly. She broke her leg and was on crutches and then she found a new apartment because I think the guy was stalking her. I could not believe the brutality I saw with my own eyes. I've never seen anything like that before or since. This was about five years ago. I'm glad she moved and she was not hurt worse. The car was probably going maybe 30 mph in a parking lot so if it had been on the street at a faster speed, she could have been killed. :(

This thread is escalating quickly, but I'm so sorry you had to see that and feel sorry for her too. :eek: This seems like something you'd see in a Thriller movie, not in real life! :eek:

I hope I never have to see that or anything like it again.

I hope I never have to see that or anything like it again.


I don't blame you. That's some traumatizing stuff! :eek: Speaking of traumatizing, someone said she saw a guy commit suicide by jumping off a roof! :eek: She said she was traumatized, and I don't blame her! :eek:

I don't blame you. That's some traumatizing stuff! :eek: Speaking of traumatizing, someone said she saw a guy commit suicide by jumping off a roof! :eek: She said she was traumatized, and I don't blame her! :eek:

That is awful. I never saw someone commit suicide but a friend of mine's husband hung himself. It was many years ago and she's fine now but it was horrific at the time.

That is awful. I never saw someone commit suicide but a friend of mine's husband hung himself. It was many years ago and she's fine now but it was horrific at the time.

Oh my God, how awful! :eek: I can't imagine how awful your Friend felt losing her Husband to Suicide! :eek: :(

Man, this thread is quickly becoming depressing. I'm thinking of putting more light hearted posts to lighten the mood.

I've never seen the on purpose headbutt in real life, although a Family Friend and I when I was a child ended up headbutting by accident after coming home after eating at Outback Steakhouse!:lol: Ironically, during our Outback Steakhouse meal, I kept hoping the Waitresses would end up accidentally headbutting each other and how funny that would be! Only for our Family Friend and I to end up accidentally headbutting each other after the meal! :lol: Ironic karma! :lol:

Thanks for lightening up the mood. :) ^:lol:

Thanks for lightening up the mood. :) ^:lol:


You're welcome! :D