sses for me. So, I am a tailor’s wife without his signature dress.

It’s a shame. © Overheard / Ideer

Story 9: 

Story 10: 

I am a teacher and was working at an independent school supporting struggling students. One student needed much more support than we could offer, and I spent the year coaching her parents around better options for the following year. Thankfully, her family got her into a school that better suited her educational needs.

And I got laid off because our highest needs student was gone, and the school felt like they no longer needed me as a result. © tiny_****_toucher / Reddit

Story 11: 

I had an idea of giving a phone to a friend for his birthday — his old one had broken, and he complained about it a few times. But I decided to play a prank on him and pack the phone in an old kettle box. I came to the party and handed it to him.

The friend put it to the pile of all other gifts.

There was silence from him for 3 days. Then on the fourth day, he called me and said, “Bro, there’s an awkward situation here. Did you bring the kettle box?”

He gave it to his mum without opening it.

He thought she needed the kettle more. But she got an expensive phone instead and was delighted. It wasn’t nice to take it back from her, so he left the phone to his mum. © Chamber 6 / VK

Story 12: 

Story 13: 

I once saw the handle from someone’s front door had come off and was lying on the pavement.

I thought that was no good because somebody could steal it, or it could get lost or whatever, but instead of seeing if I could reattach it (perhaps it could click back on) I put it through their letterbox. So now this person’s door had no handle to access the handle they would need to get into their house.

They saw the end of me doing this. I thought I was going to have to shove my skinny arm through the letterbox and get bitten by the dogs, I heard bark in an attempt to reach it.

I apologized and they said it was fine. I have no idea how they got into their house, but I really was just trying to help. © circus-witch / Reddit

Story 14: 

A friend suggested I go to a dancing class. So I went there with her sister.

After about a month, I relaxed and stopped being shy. I noticed that I began to dance better. And at one lesson even the teacher praised me — I was so happy!

Apparently, I was too happy.

Toward the end of the class I felt a terrible pain in my lower back, I couldn’t even walk home. Turned out I had a hernia recurrence. After the operation, I had to spend a couple of weeks lying down.

So, I went dancing, but spent a lot of money on the operation. © Ward 6 / VK

Story 15: 

My husband gave me a shower gel for my birthday. I didn’t show it to him, but I got really offended, because we had no money problems. I checked that his company was okay, and we had enough money in our bank account so that he could buy me at least a bunch of flowers.

I looked closely at the gel, and he knew that I hated that fragrance.

I ended up crying and poured the gel down the toilet. My husband came home happy and said, “Did you find it?”
Turns out he’d put the ring in the bottle cap. He wanted to surprise me.

So, he had to retrieve it from the toilet himself. © Overheard / Ideer