Sad Stories That Will Break Your Heart From r/AskReddit (1 Hour Reddit Compilation)

what's the worst way as so has broken up with you have her new boyfriend pick her up without letting me know that we've broken up dated for five years mostly long-distance he broke up with me the day before I got a job offer in the city he was moving to after graduation we now live near each other he had his mom break up with me for him Oh high school WTF that is the strangest way I can imagine a breakup going back in 1994 I went to Burning Man with my GF at a time long story short I packed it in early 3:00 a.m. one night and when I woke up she was gonna snore apparently she met some dude the night before and ended up going home to Portland with him never saw her again only know the whole story because one of her friends took pity on me and told me what had happened just about a month ago my so just cut off all contact randomly no goodbyes no anything we weren't currently fighting or anything severe last time I saw her was actually a very pleasant time it was just over like that kinda sucks I was away in San Jose CA for a week of training for work my wife takes the opportunity to move all her stuff out later tells me thank you for marrying me after her and her lawyer take me to the cleaners later on I get unsolicited email updates about her life crazy B I'm not interested in you or your life after you freaked me over fast forward a year and half later and I'm working my way through a five-year plan accomplishing things I would never have been able to with her in my life life is beautiful again after all the pain during a phone call with a friend we were making plans for a huge party in the next month and he mentioned that the party would collide with my work herm what your girlfriend told me that you said you couldn't go on holiday with her due to work so she asked me whether I'd take the spot in the booking because it's non-refundable I assumed that this was your idea so I didn't mention it to you earlier thank God for honest gross facebook messenger on my birthday which was also prom night phoned the police and accused me of groping the kids left at the altar two different women we'd been together for 2.5 years I had just bought a condo that we had planned on moving into and starting a family in out of nowhere I come home to a letter on my pillow and a bag of things I left at her place the letter said that it was over but not why it was over I tried calling her up but she had blocked my number and her best friend and parents almost three years later and I still have absolutely no idea what happened or why she left and I still can't really afford the condo all by myself oh and my very first GF in high school just kept ignoring and avoiding me until I eventually just got the hint that really sucked too I planned a surprise hot air balloon ride for our one-year anniversary on our drive there she said she was getting back together with her ex that was a long freaking 90 minutes in a basket with her I ended up getting hammered on champagne and bass on the balloon operators car keys she told me I know you can't help it but it really bothers me that you're not American like if we got married and had kids they wouldn't be normal kids you know English is my first language and I've lived in America since I was a toddler my bad B you escaped consider yourself lucky we'd been together two years lived together won and had been remodeling her house she told me I should stay with my brother for a week while hunting so that we could save money on the gas it would take to do the one hour one way Drive every day it would also give us some time apart as we had been getting into little arguments I agreed that it would be a nice little split and we could then go stronger than ever I thought we were on the same page and unannounced to her had asked permission from her family to marry her we talked on the phone every day and I even came back one day for her mom's day I was supposed to be back Sunday afternoon to do laundry and get stuff ready for work Monday morning she casually told me during a discussion at 11:00 p.m. Saturday night that she didn't want me to be in her house that I needed to find someplace else to live but made a couple calls to get someplace to stay and when I went to get my work stuff found out she had all of my stuff packed in boxes already apparently she had been telling everybody for the entire week that we had already broken up what makes it worse was that we both had kids and second grade and she was always stressing that we were a family also found out after that she had been going to lunch dates with another guy and pretending they were business meetings she basically left my son and me and our dog homeless fortunately I've got some good friends that jumped in to help out row Frick that woman I broke up with myself really I unlocked her iPad and I was greeted with a Google search for advice on how to dump someone you live with claw twist her close friend was asking for advice about how to dump someone she lives with we were together three years and then had to make it into a long-distance relationship as she moved abroad for work we are doing our best to keep it together and going into I buy our ticket to visit her in New York we are English and then a few days before I'm gonna fly out she calls and says she doesn't want me to come and see her anymore after that things fizzled out pretty quickly I never thought she wouldn't want to see me so that really hurt at least she didn't make you fly out and pay for a ticket only to send you home I guess : I broke up with someone on April Fool's Day by accident she went to stay with a friend my friend and texted me that she wasn't coming back ended up hooking up with him and leaving me with a three-month-old child the things she said before she left - I have trouble thinking about them she didn't say anything maliciously either it was all well thought out and it was clear that she meant every word about having never had feelings for me and all the rest I had never been such a broken human that was over five years ago and I still haven't regained the sense of empathy that I used to have I was in the middle of a game of sieve and she expected me to stop so she could break up with me I mean God dang woman you're already dumping me don't freak up my game as well trick diplomacy start that Manhattan Project everyone is getting a nuke now halfway through a handy on my birthday over text ignored me for a week beforehand zero stroke ten would not recommend exact same thing happened to me can confirm this is indeed zero stroke ten about three years ago now I was living with my so for about a year we had been together for a while before that and things were awesome at first over the course of the year things started to change sex was sporadic she would stay out late at night and I always had a feeling something was up just never any proof so at one point we were planning on moving back home near her parents we spent two months planning this and saving meanwhile things continued she got a DUI kept staying out late saying she was working to get ot and all that stuff we were fighting a lot and things were pretty stressful and tense eventually a few days before we were supposed to move out she disappeared all three days and wouldn't return a single call or text I was pretty worried and scared I spent the last day in our apartment alone drinking a bottle of whiskey to myself sad and depressed not knowing where she was or what was going on the last day around 3:00 a.m. I hear a knock on the door and it's the police I'm really drunk still and also super worried I'm about to hear some awful news instead the cops immediately handcuff me as I see her come around the corner with some guy they restrain me as I'm yelling at her what is going on and who this guy is the cops tell me to shut up and that they are there for her safety because she told them I threatened violence to her which never happened i sat there handcuffed and crying while she took everything all hers and mine while her new boyfriend laughter to me and she left the cops told me if I stepped out the door I would be arrested immediately if she took off with everything and left me in California with nothing so pretty battled in all I've spent the last 2-3 years trying desperately to get my life back together and it's been nothing but luck and more bad relationships since then if this is legit you should sue the police department they essentially aided a burglary had her friends meet me by the bus lanes after school said they had a message for me proceeded to throw confetti in my face while saying she's dumping you later on that same chick accused me of our ping her I was 12 years old middle school was a confusing time this is how I broke up with my first girlfriend it was at the end of 6th grade so we were going out in that middle schooler sense of the term she would call me up pretty much every day and I would listen to her talk only saying a few things every now and then one day I decided it was enough so after an hour of listening to her I told her I didn't want to go out with her anymore I didn't think it was so bad but starting in seventh grade she started a downhill spiral into drugs that landed her in rehab by the middle of high school my friends would always jokingly say I was the root of her problems not your fault everyone makes their own choices my ex GF got me fired from my job then as opposed to talking to me about it she went to her party because it was the last party she was going to before she went to take part in an internship we never really spoke again this didn't happen to me but I knew everyone involved my brother's roommate had a good job as a waiter in an expensive restaurant it was his dream to live in Hawaii he had been there on vacation twice and loved it he saved all his money to pay for himself and his girlfriend to move to Hawaii and live for 3 months assuming neither of them found a job they moved to Hawaii and he found a good job as a waiter before a month was out she didn't find any job and became extremely unhappy fast forward two months and they have spent all the money he had to move back to the mainland Portland Oregon three days later she broke up with him for good Facebook shot on April Fool's Day at 11 a.m. while I was at my job also it was a work day where I had to do several long interviews with severely depressed patients I thought he was joking he was not joking I cried under my desk in between patients April Fool's Day is forever ruin text message we were in the same University course and classes and lived in the same building that was an awkward next four years around them this happened to my room mate but it was such a weird unnecessarily criminal way to break up with someone they were both PhD students a couple years away from graduating and had been dating for two years when he breaks up with her his reasoning was that eventually when they went on the job market he was going to be a professor at a much more successful school than her since his research was so great and hers was inferior and uninteresting he didn't want her dragging him down when he was picking a job I mean breakups are devastating enough good to bring the person's intelligence and potential career path into it is just crappy the two most important things in her life at the time were him and her research and he just shat all over both things in one fell swoop even when she was over him she was still freaked out about what it said about her research though intellectually she knew that he was in butthole and an idiot the kicker will she found out a few months later that he had started dating his roommates sister right after they broke up and had probably been seeing the sister behind her back for a few weeks so that was clearly the real reason why he decided that it was nicer to tell someone you were leaving them because they were stupid and would be unsuccessful later in life than that you have found someone else is still a complete mystery to me to those who want to know what happened to them he hasn't graduated yet and is still in school and my friend decided to go into the private sector instead of academia and is now making Matt Bank called me RC and said he was done with me on the microphone while he was beating at my birthday party in our local bar in front of all my friends the amazing part was we got back together after that then broke up again four months later without explanation or further contact it's only been a few days but I'm doing surprisingly well though Frick you I'm not slowing my life down to be sad over someone that decided to discard me without notice ghosting man the crap sucks arse my wife of ten years announced her infidelity with a co-worker and our divorced two days before Christmas last year then decided to clean out the house on Christmas Eve a day later I came home to a sad empty house on Christmas Eve she even took our dinner to share with her newfound love and because everywhere else was closed I ate beans from a can and made a cheese sandwich we shared an apartment in California and she was visiting her mother in Peru where she is from she expected to be gone for several months about five months later I was at a small party with a bunch of our friends and overheard someone say something about her new husband four years ago in college I introduced my gf to my entire life s friend who happened to come with me to the same college after a few days I found them at the library they had met to study without telling me anything but didn't suspect a thing there flirting was intense even in front of my face later on I asked my friend to stop when we were alone he said he was sorry that she was very cute next day we go for some beers best friend tells me again that bros before hoes one hour later they are making out in front of me at a party AOL Instant Messenger heartbroken an hour after I had the surgery to remove our miscarriage child he did this through text two weeks ago he texted me late at night and said I love you I tried to call him but he didn't answer drove to his house where I was informed by the officers there that he hung himself I guess dying is pretty crappy god I miss him I've lived through two suicides family not and so that being said please don't hesitate to reach out for help survivor's guilt is some heavy crap and will mess you up learn from me and get help before you hit rock bottom not after my heart goes out to you well apparently there's a word for it and it's called being ghosted which basically means he just stops all communication with me suddenly I never got an explanation to why he wanted to break up I had been with her for four and a half years got engaged on our four-year anniversary while planning to get married on our fifth we had been living together for about a year and a half I go away for a month of army training and a few days before I get back she tells me she has something special planned for when I get home she picks me up right from my armory and we drive down to Cedar Point one of our favorite places and where we got engaged we spend the night in a nice hotel spend the next day at the park and then drive home she drops me off back at the Armory so I can get my vehicle and tells me she'll meet me at home I Drive home and she's not there I go inside and all of her stuff is gone I get a text a few minutes later saying I don't want to see you anymore please don't ever talk to me again never heard from her again I tried calling and texting no answer I check her Facebook and find I being blocked I have a mutual friend check it and he tells me she already changed it to in a relationship with a guy from her work her younger sister ends up telling me that she had been cheating on me with him for about six months so basically right after I proposed and she said yes we went out for lunch on the day we took possession of the upstairs suite in the house we were living in we may love he kissed me when I went for work told me to have a good day and then moved all his crap out he moved all my stuff upstairs so at least I had that but I came home to all his crap gone almost three years recovering from cancer found out she was cheating due to me getting more attention than her it was Valentine's Day I ordered food from the best restaurant in town I got her a box of chocolates and some flowers I set up the dinner on a table in my small dorm room with a candle she had social anxiety and didn't like going out I got a text from her that she wanted us to break up so she can be with her long-distance ex-girlfriend straight up no explanation we were 16 and trolling around the mall on a date one Friday night and we sat down on one of the couches in Best Buy that they have in front of their TV displays we were joking around and at a lull in the conversation she broke up with me I kept asking why and she said it's not a big deal just stop asking never got an actual explanation it left me pretty freaked because I had no idea what I did wrong and it left me with trust issues that I had to work through he broke up with me and got back together with me four times all in the span of maybe six months I was in high school and was too stupid to know better and a final time he said he never actually liked me he just didn't want to see me cry and then a couple years after that he ended up are paying my best friend by providing me with a letter of reference for future lovers redditors who work in retail what's the saddest thing someone ever returned customers regularly come in with large amounts of baby supplies returns they get the wrong gender items or duplicates an older woman came in with a cartload so I asked about the new baby she slowly and through tears explained that her only child and grandbaby had died during childbirth a man returned a Christmas tree one year he was pretty bummed out and when I asked him about it he told me that he was supposed to have visitation this Christmas but his ex refused to let him see his kids I still think about that guy I hope he gets his kids this year powerlift chair never used delivered three days after her dad died I used to be a manager for Disney Store we had a regular old man coming with his wife regularly super cute couple I mean matching outfits holding hands just cute as could be we used to sell these huge stuffed animals like ginormous the couple came in about once a week and would just walk around laugh and smile buy things here and there one night he came in on his own and bought one of these gigantic Mickey's we had it was $300 I think he was so excited he told us all about how he was going to take her out to dinner and it would be sitting there on the bed to surprise her when they got home anyway two days later he walked back in carrying the gigantic Mickey Mouse plush to return it he had bought it to surprise her for her 75th birthday she passed away in her sleep the day before her birthday he thanked us and said goodbye and that he would not be coming back because our store reminded him too much of his wife we found out he passed away a week later it was just seven days from the day wife passed someone returned a lot of baby clothes to us one day her sister have given birth to stillbirth twins it was so sad two middle-aged ladies apparently sisters were having the time of their life in my department one bought a ton of assorted housewares including some relatively inexpensive but very distinctive colored glass vases we chatted throughout they were fun I kept thinking how much other real joy it had been the deal with them the next week she came back to return the vases when I asked the reason for the return expecting though the color size didn't work like I expected she embarrassedly explained that impulsive purchases were a problem in her manic states not a return but I worked in a jewelry store and the saddest sale we ever had was a lay-by guy had this ring on laid by for 12 months but died in a car accident his parents came in and picked up the ring so his girlfriend could keep it don't think she had any idea he was going to propose if I worked at Toys R Us in the late 90s before there was really a separate baby store and we sold all the cribs and clothing etc someone returned carts full of baby items from a registry an older man came in on behalf of the mother because the baby was stillborn we accepted all items at full price with no receipts and gave back ash family certainly didn't need hundreds of dollars in store credit by worker to the curse store in a college town and one night some younger guy was returning a keg barrel only it was still half full I jokingly asked the guy if it was a crappy party or something along those lines and he responded with yeah it was a party for one of our friends who died the day of the party a guy came into a jewelry store and wanted help to find his wife something nice throughout the process he told me that they were having problems and he thought they were going to split up but he was lovely but slightly weird for whatever reason anyhow he bought her a diamond ring and left exactly two days later he returned sad and asked if he could have a refund as she had split up with him turned out their problems were about how much money he was spending and so she wasn't exactly thrilled he had gone and bought her diamonds I work at hardware store about a week ago we had someone return a jack which had failed and snapped shut on his arm his forearm was completely shattered and I think he lost his job I work at a thrift store and it's not exactly returning that we get a lot of sad donations like we got a father's suicide recording made for his two sons it's like two hours long I listened to the whole thing also there's a guy who comes in every week and donates one box of stuff I asked him if he was moving one time and he said no these were my wife's she's passed now I'm never asking someone why they're donating ever again a guy was returning baby formula and he was looking pretty down I asked him how his day was and he said that he has been having a long day and that he's been having a long month too I thought he just had a baby so maybe he just got the wrong formula I asked if he just had a baby and he said he used to have a baby I told him I was sorry and he said it was okay there were a few minutes of silence and he said he was a fun little guy I was working at a large pet store in the tropical fish department one busy weekend a very well dressed rather snobby woman came in and bought six baby angelfish each about the size of a dime plus the fins the store I worked in was inside a huge high-end shopping mall so we had a holding service where we would bag up fish cash the customer out and flip the fish in their bags in a warm tank until the customer was finished all their shopping and ready to leave for home as a matter of course I offered to hold this lady's baby angelfish she said she was all good and left we thought nothing of it since many of our customers came in from outside the mall just to stop at the pet store and didn't bother visiting the rest of them all four or five hours later she stormed back into the store demanding a manager and a refund she was shaking the bag in our faces for emphasis yelling that her gorgeous angels were all dead on close inspection we discovered that the silly bee had put the poor fish in her car presumably so she didn't need to carry them while she shopped for other things or returned to the store to pick them up unfortunately because it was January and the temperature outside was about minus 15 degrees Celsius the tiny babies had frozen to death she simply couldn't wrap her head around the idea that tropical fish cannot withstand freezing temperatures even when we took a tiny fish out of the bag and showed her that not only had ice formed on top of the ones 84 degrees fahrenheit water but the dime sized fish was actually frozen stiff some people just shouldn't have pets not strictly retail or a return but at the cinema I used to work for someone booked an entire gold class lounge so they could propose to their girlfriend alone this cost thousands of dollars he had a special video made up to play after the trailers the whole nine yards today or two before the big day he called to cancel his booking his girlfriend had dumped him I work in a clothing store and a gentleman came in with his wife because he had lost 80 pounds and needed new clothes because his old ones wouldn't fit obviously I congratulated and jested that he must be working out every day to lose that kind of weight he replied that cancer was the cause of the weight loss and not exercise as I so jointly suggested he understood when I apologized and still bought clothes returned her husband's replacement razors I asked her if he was unsatisfied and maybe wanted another kind style nope he died earlier before his birthday to receive them she started crying and I just leaned over the counter to console her jared allen bought like 15 families Christmas at the target I worked for I mean like big-ticket stuff for everyone like TV iPad etc it was something like 15k total the next day since I was the Security Manager I was screamed at by eight of those families that wanted to do returns for cash saying I was ruining their children's Christmas I made it to my lunch break before I comped out there's an easy enough solution for that tell them that you'd be happy to process their returns and that the credit will be returned to the account that was used for the purchase once I was at a pawn shop looking for a new amp when a guy came in wanting to return an engagement ring he'd bought the day before he said he'd caught his girl cheating when he went home early to surprise and propose to her of course they wouldn't just exchange it or give him his money back but they did before to buy it back from him for way less than he paid he ended up selling it back to them for from what I could tell from what I could make out of what he was saying much less than he'd bought it for poor guy was extremely distraught over his whole ordeal this kid came in by himself and was looking for some socks or booties for his weenie dog he was telling me about how he got her and how now her legs didn't work anymore so he didn't want her getting hurt while dragging he paid with a bunch of pocket change and ran out the door a couple days later he came back in and just handed me the socks back if I worked at a subway for a year and we shared the building with a jewellery store it was a small business and we always made a salad for the owners free of charge one day a customer of their store is incredibly enthusiastic about buying an engagement ring for their so he told the entire subway crew how he met her after his mother died and that they've been seeing each other for almost five years he kept saying how he was happy that he found someone who makes him truly happy and that all the challenges in his life were necessary for him to find true love he came back a few days later the light from his eyes was gone he was returning the ring I talked to the owners later that day after he left and apparently she broke it off with him because she fell in love with someone else it was really sad to watch I work at a grocery store where someone returned a box of crackers she said that she doesn't actually eat the crackers she just licks the flavoring off of them but this particular box did not have enough seasoning for her so she licked the crackers and then brought em back I went behind the return counter one day and saw a pair of boots with a damaged slip on it they look fine so I asked my coworker why she damaged them out of the system and she said a girl died in them apparently the girl's mother bought them for her when she was sick in the hospital she died and the mother returned them someone returned a prescription dog food I knew what happened as soon as she approached the counter her dog passed away he was very old and sick she broke down in front of me I used to work for an online retailer that sold baby items think baby memory books clothes toys growth charts etc someone was returning a baby memory box where you can't store items like their baby shoes and teeth for posterity when I asked what the reason for the return was she said it was because they had lost the baby you could tell in her voice how hard that was to say I was fresh out of college childless and had no idea how to react fortunately that was the only time I ran into that during my time there a set of mr. and mrs. pillows she had a tan line where her engagement ring was a black eye and her neck in a brace it turns out the fiance was abusive but he didn't show his true colors until about a month before the wedding when he thought he had her trapped luckily she got out alive I felt so bad for her not so much a return that an old man came into the photo lab I worked at to pick up his photos he has dropped them off months ago and he had no ticket turns out his house burned down and he lost everything we helped him find the photos all he had were photos of a grey cat sleeping or sitting by a window he cried like a baby when he saw the photos he was old and living alone the only thing he cared about was that cat and if had died in the fire I forgot to charge him for the photos my bad this happened a little over a year ago a frail old woman came in to return in and opened box of a very expensive brand of Cologne she didn't say much pass I need to return this and me being the people person I am tried to jokingly mentioned it her husband not like the brand she sighed and said it was his birthday present and when I went to visit him in hospice to give it to him he had already passed away I was speechless and profusely apologized and ended up talking to her about my mom passing away a few months prior to this and we ended up crying together in the store and talking for an hour and a half she left with a smile on her face but the initial reaction still haunts my dreams not my story but my supervisor shared a story with me about an old woman who placed a large order to redecorate her and her husband's house we are a store that mostly sells general home items but also have a large selection of furniture she had selected several thousands dollars worth of merchandise a lot of it was special order so it was being sold non-returnable the woman ended up passing away shortly after everything was delivered and the husband couldn't deal with all the new stuff he wanted to keep all of their old things exactly the way they were so my supervisor made an exception to have it all returned refunded somewhat similarly someone created a registry for their upcoming baby they had a ton of baby stuff picked out unfortunately the husband had later called in to say his wife had miscarried and the baby didn't make it the wife was ok but in no condition to talk on the phone so again my supervisor allowed everything to be returned no questions asked someone returned a get well soon card I worked at a vitamin store the most commonly bought item were weight loss control pills that had deaf ear in them zina dream and the store brand equivalent were the most popular others next to Hydroxycut our store sent memos that due to recent problems with the products we would be hollering full refunds even if the product was opened and mostly used the people returning them were tweaked to their follicles shaking sputtering saying IIIC can't take this stuff and anymore it had Sen M making my heart P pound to F fast and I'm just like okay it's okay a woman came up to the return desk with three shopping carts and a fistful of long receipts she explained that she was a compulsive shopper and that as part of her therapy she was supposed to return everything to face how much she had been spending it took me over an hour to ring up the hundreds of items she had all new inbox all with receipts when it was all done it came up to nearly $800 and a lot of the things had been bought long enough ago that they had clearances out so her return was pennies on the dollar someone returned a graduation cake because their son was killed in an accident the night before it was heartbreaking back when I had just started college I worked at Barnes & Noble one night I was working a shift at the cash register a lady came up with a handful of books and a stuffed llama I told her the llama was really cute and she was like I know isn't it great she checked out and walked out to her car where her husband and son were waiting five minutes later she came back inside she said she had to return the llama and I expressed surprise and asked why she said my husband wants my son to have a more American animal like a lion I worked in a plus-sized clothing store I helped a woman pick out a wardrobe for a two-week cruise that she was going on with her boyfriend of six months a few weeks later she returned all the clothes unworn I asked her if the cruise was canceled no it turns out that there never was a cruise or a relationship this guy was dating her as a prank and he and his buddies schemed to see what they could get the girl to believe he thought he was in love with her and wanted to move in together soon his parting words to her were like anyone would really date a fat butt like you I helped a grandpa to be pick up some baby clothes for his daughter who was expecting twins he returned them a couple weeks later because they died he started crying as I was processing the return I used to work for Nordstrom back when they had a forever return policy a girl in my department got only five so her whole family returned years worth of merchandise some co-workers told me it was over 20k worth of product a woman came in the pet store I work night shifts at and bought a ton of stuff for her new rat and about two days later she returned everything including the rat she put him in a soda box turned on the short end he was coated in fesses and urine I took him in the back and cleaned him up but god I don't know that I've ever felt so bad for an animal that I really have never taken an interest to worked at a clothing store that was popular with teens a spoiled tween came to the register accompanied by her mum and laid out easily five hundred dollars worth of clothing probably around 20 plus tops 5 pairs of jeans a jacket shorts sandals etc as I'm ringing up this absurd amount of items another girl I assumed the first girl's friend joins the tween and her mom as she approaches I realized the friend must have recently underwent chemo she was probably a tween as well completely bald and frail she approaches the girl and her mom with a single tank top friend is it ok if I get this mom sure but Susan needs to put back one of her items daughter no way mom profanity-laden verbal assault on her mother ensues but mom decides to purchase about $500 of clothes for the daughter while the cancer-stricken friend returns the $10.00 tank top I continued despondently ringing everything up hating the world what is the saddest detail about your life that no one knows when my brother and I were 9 and 7 my mom told me she could not afford chocolate Easter eggs for us I told my brother that we should not expect chocolate on Easter morning he giggled and said Dennis mom's saying that to surprise us I knew he was wrong but he thought I was being silly next day no chocolate I was sick to my stomach in dread all night and to see the look on his face in the morning and the immediate realization it was no joke killed me a little inside I'm 47 now and it's is still a horrible mess I am the eleventh of twelve kids from a very loving family he is twelfth I never told anyone and never bring it up as it brings back memories of the extreme poverty of being a boy now at work I initiate for the collection of food for the various food cupboards and the Shepherd's of Good Hope Christmas hamper every year no one knows why and prob thinks it's an attempt to get favor but it's so much so much not while so many replies you are all wonderful and kind life is good now me and my brother moved to Ottawa good jobs and we both own in partnership with the bank lol our own homes life is good and I always have a chocolate in the freezer love frozen chocolate at Easter I put a few solid chocolate bunnies in be kind to each other it warms my heart to see that you made the bad situation and expirience into something worthwhile and wonderful I'm sure your actions made the lives of many others more comfortable when asked I tell people that I'm an only child it is easier than explaining that all of my siblings passed before the age of 10 goddamnit I lost my big sister in a car accident when I was 12 13 and I do the exact same thing when people ask then I always feel bad against her afterwards as it's almost disregarding her existence now I'm sad my sister and my dad used to think it was funny when starting at 3 or 4 years old every time my mum was going to be God for an expanded period of time they would say she isn't coming back she doesn't love you she doesn't want you around she's gone forever they thought it was funny because I loved her and I would have a breakdown what I didn't know was my mom would always tell me if it wasn't for me she could have gotten back with her true love and when I was elder she would say she didn't love me and she didn't think anyone ever would I was unlovable she even tried suicide once or twice when I was much older and said the same thing and said she wished she had son she could love and Wis have made her happy she said this as I was on the line with 911 in vomit and crap to this day I don't think I'll ever feel loved I have a wife but mostly don't believe it I found my mother's dead body when I was 8 two years old I buy myself a gift for my birthday I can't remember the last time I got a gift from someone my best friend called me just to talk I told him I was too busy to talk I blew him off to play Oblivion that was the last time I ever spoke to him he died of an overdose right after a month before she died my grandma wanted to see me just for a bit before I went to another city to give me $50 books as a present because I got into med school I almost didn't go and then just spent like two minutes with her and rushed to the bus terminal she seemed so happy for me and just the most genuine kind of happiness you can feel without getting anything from it I was a major butthole who just wanted to get on this bus she died a month after that from pneumonia I never got to see her conscious again but I cried next to her when she was almost gone telling her to forgive me after she died I included her in every small mental prayer I do before falling asleep though I'm not particularly religious and when I remember her and how much other douche I was I cry a bit I hope she forgives me I'm married but think that my husband never wanted this life my Google history has both engagement rings he never did the whole proposal thing and I want him to so bad and how much it costs to get a divorce it frickin kills me that none of my friends will ever text me first if I don't send them a message I can go days without ever receiving a notification aside from the games on my phone which also makes me feel horrible now that summer vacation is starting I don't know what I am going to do since I almost never get invited to anything and school was where I saw my friends I'm scared that everyone secretly talks betting my back about me in that they are saying bad things every night I drink until I get drunk and pass out because I can't handle how sad I feel I always push away those I love because I don't want them to have to deal with my sadness either but they end up thinking that I don't like them and I wish I could tell them the truth there's strength in being vulnerable I bet typing that made you feel like a burden was lifted off your shoulders I think you should talk to at least one of your friends so they'll know that you don't hate them being lonely is the worst thing a person can feel by opening up you'll allow yourself to heal and you'll build stronger bonds PS shoot me a p.m. if you want to talk I'm bitter of everyone else's successes and abilities and I don't believe I'm worth anything it's part my job right now to perform CPR on the dead and dying in the emergency department sometimes while family watches I love my job generally but those times are hard there's something deeply unsettling about being the person pumping someone's heart in the first place but when the code is called and you just stop and that's it that last chest compression was the last time their heart will beat and it was you it's very humbling and I always treat patients with kindness and respect because I'm about as close to death as it gets and kindness and servitude just seem right I don't know yep paramedic here I've seen some horrific stuff the thing that stays with me and upsets me the most is the sound of a wife screaming and crying as we worked her husband's cardiac arrest in their living room I loved being a paramedic but things like this break my heart maybe more than they should when I was very little I 100% believed my dad was going to show up every time he was supposed to him not existing in my life didn't change this belief so every single time he was supposed to arrive I would sit and silently cry at the window Hey I grew up without my dad too and even though he left us and said he'll come visit he never showed up and it makes me sad to this day you aren't alone and if you need someone to talk to you can talk to me just be too hard on yourself or let the negative thoughts control you and please don't think it's your fault I stole food from my high school so I could take it home for my siblings to eat abusive drug-addicted mom who sold her foot stumps for drugs I'm a pretty normal and well-adjusted human these days or at least I like to think so people would never guess I spent my childhood growing up in absolute poverty I've lived in temps and vehicles eating out of dumpsters and stolen other people's pet food just for something to eat one place we lived was so infest with my Santa I got used to having them run over me while I slept I still have a scar on my finger from the time one of them decided to chomp me when I read sob stories about third-world poverty conditions my first thought is what the Frick are they complaining about they've got it good and then I remember that perhaps my upbringing isn't the best yardstick to judge good against I am so lonely I sometimes hold my own hands when I'm falling asleep just to picture what it would be like to actually touch someone that wants to touch me I hug a pillow can't sleep without it my dog drowned in our pool I fished her out and buried her in the backyard with one of my brothers before the rest of the family found out I still don't know how she fell in she hated the water and try to avoid thinking about it because it breaks my heart one of the last things my mom asked for and ate before she died was an orange creamsicle three years later they are still in my freezer I just can't seem to throw them out I got a six-pack of Pepsi from my brother's funeral and brought it home I drank the first five but for some strange reason I couldn't bring myself to drink the last one for years we do strange things when coping with death I also still have his gran turismo saves with all his ghost recordings I've told my friends and family that I just don't want kids but actually I've known for years that I can't I hate it I don't have a life I just exist Frick I just want to give everyone here hugs you and me both when I was a kid and living with my psycho mother I finally convinced her to let me get a dog anyways a couple months later when I loved that little puppy more than anything my mother drowned it in the bathtub a little late to the game but oh well when I was 16 the heat in our house got shut off it was the dead of winter in Michigan my mom liked to spend her disability checks on cable and mountain Jew instead of bills my sister and I gathered up all the blankets in the house and we both slept in the living room on separate couches what no one knows is during the middle the night my sister kept saying I'm too cold is there any more blanket so I gave her mine I tried sleeping in my winter jacket but ended up being too cold you're good sibling I was pregnant eight years ago I have a 20% chance of conceiving so I looked at it like a miracle but my boyfriend at the time threatened to break up with me if I didn't abort it I bought a baby book in little booties three days later I miscarried he made me return the baby book and throw away the flowers a friend bought me I don't talk about it much it was my only chance at having a child and I failed so I have to pretend that I don't want kids and that I am totally happy being child free even though it eats me up inside throw away account people know my reddit account I've been lying to what's left of my friends and my family but I spent my first year of university completely alone and made no friends and uni at all didn't go to any events or parties or gatherings I spent learning all alone and I didn't have anyone didn't ask anyone for help with all the subjects I was struggling it was all school go live in my one-man pad go to my part-time job rinse and repeat it was lonely as heck and I just silently suffered through it I'm not looking forward to it when I come back to school at fall hey man I hope things get better for you and you don't feel so alone if you need someone to talk to my inbox is always open I was severely neglected by my parents so now I have no self esteem pretty much everything I do is a constant struggle against the weight on my shoulders that no one cares and whatever I'm doing will never be good enough no amount of success or achievement ever lifts me up for more than a few fleeting moments and is quickly forgotten in my personal legacy of constant disappointment because nothing I do will ever replace the love and affection I should have had as a child needless to say I have trouble with relationships I grew up alone I live alone I expect to die alone I used to sit and eat my lunch alone in a bathroom stall everyday during junior high school 1999 to 2002 I had major insecurity issues and thought no one wanted to eat lunch with me to this day whenever I eat the type of sandwiches I ate then I can smell the school bathroom I used to sit in there and then hide whenever someone came in I didn't even read I would just sit there worried that someone would see me I memorized every detail of that stall I could probably recreate it in detail 14 years later every day my mother would make my lunch for me to take to school and she had no idea that I was eating it all alone in an empty bathroom the worst part is that no one ever asked where I went during lunch feeding into my insecurities that no one missed me I've never told a soul not even my wife I wasn't born a frail slow functioning socially awkward human being I just had Lyme disease I get the feeling that everyone either thinks I have an eating disorder and slightly [ __ ] a freak or all of the above I mean I am those things just not how they think oh well though that's life sometimes I try I have never had a friend or girlfriend at 24 years of age I'm in love with someone and I will never be with them I miss being anorexic at the height of it I had lost everything in my life except the disease it was all I had but damned if I wasn't good at it even as I was slowly dying I felt some sort of distorted happiness I only lived for one thing but it made me feel purposeful now that I've recovered from anorexia I care about all the other things in my life but they're still pretty much non-existent I have few friends no partners overbearing parents I hate school whatever you name it see I didn't have these things during the illness either but then I didn't care now they are just more things to get me down and to top things off I'm doing a lot of binge eating and I can't even see how I could get back to where I was anymore so yeah I'd rather be miserable than empty I killed my bird I love birds and I acid' until he killed him he was a Sun Conure named well sunny sunny would often escape his cage and because his wings were clipped he would hop over to me usually while I'm sitting at my desk just so he can hang out on my shoulder well one day sunny was doing what he always did making his way across the room to be with me however right as he was about to get to me the phone rang and I promptly got up to answer it as I stood up I stepped down and heard what sounded like a dogs chew toy cheek I immediately lifted my foot but the damage was done I held sunny in my hand splashing water on him to keep him from passing out eventually he just fell asleep in my hands and never came back I was sobbing during the whole ordeal I killed my innocent bird Sonny while he was doing what he always did he had no idea that would be the day he died and it was because I was careless who was your saddest celebrity encounter my brother met gene Simmons backstage at a show he was playing in gene complimented my brother highly on his guitar playing but then said too bad you'll never make it and just walked away I had an entirely eyeball body language conversation with Chris Pontius in a Guitar Center he was playing an acoustic I saw him he looked at me I realized who he was he saw that I recognized him and he gave me a look that was so sad like please don't announce to the world that I'm here I nodded and he smiled and looked relieved the end you do not have permission to reuse this content for your top-10s clickbait he bores Frick off I'd love to think this is one of those moments that stuck with mr. Schwarzenegger and now he finally has closure my mom found Paris Hilton incognito in an airport came to find me brought me to a tiny lady in the hoodie and big sunglasses in the middle of the airport goes hi are you Paris Hilton then pushed me in front of her run sit here say hi to my son like I was a weird birthday gift or something she said suck I said suck then she did this weird little laugh then my mom goes okay bye that was my sad and awkward meeting with Paris Hilton in an airport crap at least she said sup lol i sat next to Kevin Spacey on the tube when I was in London with my dad my dad was so pumped that he was next to Kevin Spacey he's a huge fan but he didn't want to ask him for a picture while we were on a crowded train so he just let him be he was just happy to have seen him then this guy randomly shouts from the other side of the train hey Kevin how's the acting going and everyone's faces turn to him felt so bad for Kevin Spacey no one would take their eyes off him and everyone was taking photos and whatnot just felt sorry for the guy he looked like he had just come back from a run or something and wasn't wanting to be recognized can't the imagine living my life constantly trying to avoid being recognized he'd probably just come back from pushing some poor girl in front of a train I met Hulk Hogan when I was 4 latish a tease at some wrestling thing in Dallas all I remember is that my dad got his attention as he was walking toward the ring and when he came around he stuck out this giant hand and said put it there darling I recognized him but he was scary so I peed my pants and cried I guess it's obvious now that he wanted a handshake or a high-five or something no idea anyway scared the pee out of me dude is huge Betty White it was right after the Golden Girls and Golden Palace had ended her career was not in the best place at the time I was at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and sought poster promoting Betty White signing her latest book about how much she loves animals I liked the Golden Girls so I thought I would swing by the bookstore to take a gander at Betty White it was so sad I'll always remember she was sitting alone at a big table with a stack of books in front of her people were in the bookstore shopping but no one was buying her book or really acknowledging her she just sat there pen in hand waiting she would occasionally wipe off some imaginary dust to look busy I'm getting the chills just remembering it of course I was such a self-involved college kid that I just stared at her from far away I should have just gone up and talked to her I was a little kid in the 70s like pretty much every little boy I thought Evel knieval was a serious badass when I was about seven I was in the airport with my mom and her boyfriend and a friend of mine my mother's boyfriend told us that Evel was in one of the lounges he was sitting in a back corner drinking a glass of some kind of booze and engulfed in a cloud of cigarette smoke we both approached him excitedly and asked for his autograph he was obviously drunk but he picked up a couple of cocktail napkins and scratched out his signature on both of them then he looked at us and said before I give you these I'm going to teach you something my friend the tile looks at each other totally starstruck and grinning like idiots Evel proceeded to tap both of us on the arm does that hurt he asked we both shook our heads and said no then he poked us lightly in the chest does that hurt again we both said no in unison then he made fists out of both hands with the middle knuckle sticking out and brought them down sharply and simultaneously protruding knuckle first onto both of our heads does that hurt he asked neither of us could really answer I was holding back tears from the pain he waited a few seconds and said that's why you wear a safety helmet and handed us the napkins it was pretty much the first and only time I've ever been starstruck that has to be the most drunk 70s attempt to teach kids about safety that I've ever heard not me but my friend's sister-in-law saw Jack black walking down the street and eventually the cross paths and her not wanting to pass up the chance at meeting him approached him she said something like is it really you and he said yes then she said this is so weird it's really you and he said it's not weird for me then he asked her where she was going and she said she was going to the weed dispensary thinking he might find it funny but he turned a bit sullen and said he was going to visit his mom in the hospital she said she wouldn't bother him for a picture and he thanked her and left 1993 the wetlands bar hippy central in NYC River Phoenix's band was playing and he was clearly tripping balls sample between song banter smooshes crappy wood hat around on his head silently for 30 seconds then this is called a Lu hat it's called that because Lu makes them okay sho thankfully ends he wanders off stage and is standing by me vaguely looking off into the distance me Jesus man how many hits are you on him hits what's that me acid dude I'm impressed you were able to play at all him or no man I don't do drugs few months later he is dead on an LA sidewalk from a speedball overdose coma he wanders off stage and is standing by me nice reference organized a good-sized comic-con so I've worked with quite a few but the saddest was really subtle Peter Mayhew Chewbacca was in the green room for lunch on the second day he looks very tired and is almost totally wheelchair-bound because of his terrible joint problems I'm sitting across from him while we eat and his assistant asks if his hand is feeling all right to sign more autographs terrible arthritis he closes his eyes and nods his head and whispers out how much longer will this go to data which his assistant delicately replies just five more hours and he whimpers a little and sheds a few tears as they wheel him away from the table and back out to the fans the saddest part is that he's the nicest guy and never denies a fan while he's at the con and always smiles even though he's in loads of physical pain give the guy a freaking stamp pad to use jeez he's definitely a champ for that but there has to be a way to help him do what he wants for the fans but also mitigate the literal pain of signing autographs seeing a movie in Ottawa with my mother as a child and Tom Green was behind us all alone looking grayish my mum told me not to bother him because drew Barrymore had just dumped him good advice he said in a WTF interview recently that people still ask him about drew Barrymore on the street nearly every day of his life that must suck people are stupid I met George ah ah Martin at the blaze pits are in Evanston a couple of months back when he was in town to accept an award from Northwestern University at the time I was listening to the audiobook of a Clash of Kings and he very excitedly told me you've got a ways to go to catch up when I told him that I've already read what he's published three times and I'm listening to the audiobook as a new way to experience the story he just kind of deflated he let out a big sigh and just said yeah I need to finish the next book people won't stop bothering me about it I had waited an hour and a half in line for a ride at Great Adventure was in the front seat line so the wait was even longer finally I was next in line watched Cliff Lee as my train pulled in and Chris Rock and his family come walking up from the exit and I given my spot without waiting at all I was both sad and mad and have held a grudge against him ever since a buddy of mine was a student at the University of Michigan while Michael Phelps was training there under Bob Bowman he and a few friends were walking outside of the natatorium and ran into Phelps who was eating a granola bar while heading into practice they were pretty awestruck and headed over in hopes of a photo or potential blumpkin Phelps quickly finished his granola bar in order to shake my buddy's hand as there was shaking hands he transferred the wrapper to my buddy leaned in whispered you can keep that and promptly walked off honestly that would make me laugh and I'd feel like that about what I deserved for interrupting a dude snack Joaquin Phoenix and the drummer from the record says once came into the bar I was hanging out at this was post crazy beard phase he wasn't acting weird or anything but a bunch of girls I guess he knew came in and they were all mingling having a good time I thought it would be fun to buy him Joaquin a round off whatever he was drinking the bartender served it to him turned around and pointed to me and Joaquin look dumbfounded like totally flatted he bowed and mouthed thank you so much I felt kinda dumb for doing it later on I found out from the bartender that he was acting like a madman not a total douche but just kinda wild irritating folks walking in front of cars in the street and being loud when I asked for my tab which had been pretty hefty the bartender told me that he had picked up my bill and all my friends bills as well so crazy weirdo or not I'll always remember that kindness as sad as it was to see him drunkenly irritating the F out of people freaking Joaquin Phoenix bought my tab I got cock-blocked by Graham Pitt I was an extra in World War Z and I met this girl there and we were talking and all was great until one time Brad Pitt walks by was very friendly to her totally blanked me his stunt double was a cool dude though I've met Conan O'Brien twice the first time was awesome my wife and I were visiting NYC for our anniversary and went to see his show back when he was still doing late-night at NBC the guy that warmed the crowd out before Conan came out asked if it was anyone's birthday or anniversary and I spoke up and said we were visiting for hours when Conan came out he came right up to us to shake our hands and give us a little present a few years later we went to go see his show when he was touring in between The Tonight Show mess and his TBS show we were taking a walk around the theater right when his bus happened to pull up and he came to meet us and a few other fans that were there at the time he was so visibly exhausted and gaunt looking after everything that he'd gone through I could totally understand he still talked with everyone for a few minutes and went on to do a fun show with his band later that night though this is more embarrassing for me 4:00 a.m. in an airport I ran into Adam Savage strike one don't talk to anyone in an airport at 4:00 a.m. they're just as delirious and tired as you are strike two don't freak up and say his co-hosts name when you try to say hi bonus he tweeted about five minutes later complaining about idiots in airports trying to say hi by calling him Jamie learn from my mistake Nichelle Nichols met her as a con literally a matter of hours after Leonard Nimoy passed away last year you could tell she wasn't all there in her panel because her answers to any question would quickly turn into ramblings about her ventures in high school and her early singing career I'm not sure if it was her age the grief or some combination of both but it was really depressing I saw Stephen King while getting some food in Exeter NH once I didn't walk up to him and saw anything but I saw two or three people following him trying to get him to talk to them which looked annoying to deal with poor guy I don't know if anyone outside the UK will know who this is but I performed at a festival where one of my childhood heroes Craig Charles was Jing I was a massive Red Dwarf fan so I was so excited to meet him seeing him backstage he was just this middle-aged guy in sunglasses and a leather jacket trying to hang out with all these young cool bands who didn't know okay he was that was kind of sad saw his jazz band perform in Bristol a couple of years back he was so freaked up he attacked a poster on himself then a bouncer was a weird night I was on Jeopardy a few years ago and was pretty disappointed to learn that the only time you see Alex Trebek is while you on stage taping the show he's just very dry and straightforward not rude but extremely businesslike Richard Kiel aka Joss from the 0:07 films it was a shock to see how deteriorated he looked riding a scooter because his legs were done hands shaking half-blind still signed every DVD and posed for every photo passed away two weeks after that I also pee off joel edgerton because he didn't like my question but that's more funny than sad quite a few of the guys I work with on events all knew him quite well he literally kept working until the day he died because it made him happy so yeah while it's quite sad to see someone like that you would have been a big part of why he never wanted to stop and I think that's quite a nice thing Aziz Ansari hit on me years ago and I was too starstruck to remember how to talk Moroccan I met Gilbert Gottfried at a convention and there was nobody in his line so he walked right up he was very nice and soft-spoken and I think we made his day he was fairly close to becoming a huge star for a while and now I bet most of those convention goers don't know anything about him Gilbert is great he's a rarity in that while the public thinks he's a bit cheesy and a hack he's very loved by other comedians 99% of the time it's the other way around well I once wanted to get Daryl Hannah's autograph for my friend who had been crushing on her since forever I couldn't summon up my courage to approach her directly so I just asked the dude sitting next to her he put me off very politely I went back to my friends empty-handed and was complimentary of mr. nobodies manners they told me I just asked JFK jr. for Darryl's autograph becomes even sadder in retrospect I was at a cheese shop in the West Village I realize how doubt she this sounds when I noticed James Spader was at the counter I was in the middle of a massive Boston Legal binge at the time and absolutely adored his work so I went to the counter and started looking at the cheese this is casual it's a cheese shop for Frick sake he was sampling cheese's and I just looked at this man whose work I so admired and respected and said how's the gout er apparently it's delicious stupid stupid I guess faced Andy dong tried to molest my male friend on the Hollywood Walk of Fame so that was more disturbing then sad I once ran into Andy dong at a storage facility in Hollywood he was wandering around with a giant pair of bolt cutters I was scared I was able to interview Christie Mac this was about a month before her ex-boyfriend and MMA fighter beat the crap out of her she must be 110 pounds tops her agent and I were talking when she was signing autographs and he told me about how he wants her to get away from her boyfriend he sure was right and clearly knew something well before TMZ broke the story Keira Knightley and her plus-one were at a bar Fiat a TV studio I used to work at my manager told me to take a bowl of Olives outside to her table my hands were shaking so hard she's even more beautiful in real life I tripped on the leg of the table before hers and landed right on my face she was ridiculously nice about it I was mortified two of my colleagues were on a break a few tables over and I never heard the end of it lost profits were the first band my sister really liked Annie and Watkins used to message my sister on Facebook I remember thinking what a cool guy messaging his twelve-year-old fans but then the news came out and turned that memory sour why would that be a bad memory searches Wikipedia so okay DMX very graciously held a door open for me recently it was a nice encounter until I saw in the news the next day that he had been found unconscious in the parking lot later that evening Yeti MX has been an a bit of a tailspin for a while now freely sad dude was such a great and talented rapper and made some classics went and saw Stevo do his stand-up tour after his show he said he would meet everybody there we waited in line and he was being super nice laughing and taking pictures with everyone right before we got to the stage some fat redneck butthole told him that he was funnier back when he was on drugs it killed his whole vibe when we got to him he just took a picture with us and said thanks for coming but he was clearly in a bad mood I don't blame him at all he was still extremely nice but he was clearly irritated it was cool that he still met us and took a picture with us though seemed like a really cool dude I met a local celebrity I grew up watching on local television forgot his name but he was a cowboy and hosted a kids show in my city anyway around 12 I was at an event he was hosting and he was giving out prizes from the stage for kids with certain birthdays and I won I was so excited to see him I remember going up to the stage to get my prize and as he handed it to me I said something like wow it's so nice to meet you I grew up watching you when he cut me off yeah thanks kid took me by the shoulder and turned me around to exit the stage real bummed II totally was buck shot you have been visited by the grandmother gymnast comment my body is my temple so you can do that when you old if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people

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Length: 69min 23sec (4163 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020