“They Were Being Serious”: 79 Times People Laughed Something Off And Got A Reality Check

Delivery driver to the store i worked at and was close with said "i ordered a Russian bride over the weekend" I laughed in his flipping face because I thought he was joking.

He was not.

When I was 18, me and my friends were practicing for a rap show with the guy who would be DJing (he was like 22). While we were taking a break, he casually mentioned that he was texting a 14 year old. We all were like “wth” and he just laughed and said “the older you get, the younger you want them, you’ll see”.

I did not see.

One time in middle school a kid said his dad was a famous baseball player and gave his name. Even though he had the same last name as the player and it was somewhat uncommon, I didn’t really believe him. This kid was scrawny, didn’t really appear to be an athlete at all.

Found out he was telling the truth a couple months later when he was on my little league team and his dad showed up at our first practice. Kid was a crazy good shortstop.

My colleague said he wanted to quit his job and travel around the country for a year in an RV-type vehicle with his wife and four daughters, one of whom is a toddler, the others all being under 10. He didn't have the savings for it so he said they would "trade favors" with people along the way for money or food.

I thought it was just a "distant dream"-type fantasy we were discussing but he actually quit his job last week to do it. I truly pity his kids. They should be in school having normal lives, but instead they're going to be dragged around away from home for a year, probably being filmed for social media clout on the daily.

Was working in a manufacturing facility when one of the transformers blew up rendering the presses useless for the time being. When the maintenance guys made the announcement, one lady said "those aren't real" to which everyone laughed. What a genius comeback, except she was serious. She said transformers aren't real. As in autobots and deceptions.

I was once standing in line at the supermarket, when a woman very blatantly cut in line and stepped right in front of me. She then turned around, looked at me, and said, “Oh, you don’t have that many items. You can just go ahead of me.” - Oh wow thanks, you absolute psychopath.

I was interviewing someone for a VP position in our company... someone that would have reported to me in a field that is generally very well-represented by intelligent, educated women.

With me were, in fact, two women (working in this field) and our GM.

Normally I despise standard HR questions but, for fun, I asked the candidate the usual "what was one of your challenges... blah blah".

The next thing I know, he's telling me about the time he had to "correct his wife" but "not too much" and "she always understands my point of view eventually". I'm sorry to say that after confirming with my team after the interview ... yeah, he was talking about physically correcting her.

Candidate did not get the job.

"Global warming isn't real because if you have ice in a glass of water and it melts, the water doesn't overflow."

“I don’t believe in seatbelts!”

“I don’t believe in masks”.

How 14 year old girls give off pheromones that are just almost impossible for men to resist. He was shocked that I stopped being friends with him after this.

Was leaving work with a coworker on a beautiful sunny october day. commented on it to her and she answered “eh, i guess. but you know we’ve never seen our real sun, right?”

she was nuts. she also said on separate occasions that hurricanes helene and milton was staged by the government and i was only bisexual because i played in the rain too much as a kid. weather was a big thing for her i guess.

> A plane went into the World Trade Center.

Thought the guy was talking about a video game until we turned on the news in class.

I went on a date with a guy who genuinely believed that all influential people are actually lizards. He had mentioned it when we were texting before the date and i thought he was joking. I mean, I'm familiar with the conspiracy but its so dumb i didn't think anyone could actually believe it. Yeah I was caught off guard when it turned out he wasn't being sarcastic and actually believed all that garbage.

A guy I was dating told me that there was no explanation for the Grand Canyon because aliens dug it. When I laughed and said "Well, the Colorado River had something to do with it.", he said "No way, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? The river is tiny." I said "Must have been aliens".

I was at work the day after my now ex husband was rather publicly arrested. I worked in a customer facing job where I saw exactly the same people daily. I had someone come through when there were no other customers and asked me if I’d “heard about what happened in town yesterday.” Much as I didn’t have the patience to deal with stupidity I usually just rolled my eyes on, I decided I’d see where this particular conversation went.

Well, she apparently knew who I was but not who I *actually* was. Apparently, I was sitting in the county jail (on the other side of the county), I’d been forced to trick my husband into coming home (we weren’t living together at the time and hadn’t for eight months. We weren’t even living in the same town), and my kids were in the care of CPS (they were at my home with my cousin at that moment.) So I asked if she was sure that was what happened. Yes, she was. Was she positive it happened? Absolutely. Certain? Completely. At that point, I’d already cashed her out and given her her change so I didn’t care if she looked like an idiot.

“I’m the wife, I was at work right here when it all went down, I’m obviously not sitting in jail, and right now both my kids are at home with my cousin.” And just stared at her. She went white and scurried away. I didn’t see her at lunch for quite a bit so I don’t know if she started bringing her own or had someone pick it up.

I like to use this as an example about why not to gossip about someone you don’t actually know. It’s really fascinating to hear a wildly exaggerated story about you, being told to you, by a person who doesn’t know you., though.

A close family member told me that Alex Jones is really a sweet "teddy bear" and that he is being treated unfairly. This was the same week that he admitted under oath that he was lying about the Sandy Hook shooting being a hoax and apologized to some of the parents. I thought this person was being sarcastic. But no. Now I doubt this person's judgement on everything.

A friend was looking for somewhere to live. I offered a spare room for minimal rent. They thought they would own part of the property.

I'm from Scandinavia and while travelling in the US I met a lovely young lady who wanted to know if we still had Vikings in our country. Well yes and no - strictly speaking my ancestors were and by that logic I am in fact a Viking.

But no, she was asking if we had Vikings like the US has first nationers.

Dedicated areas for vikings to do uh viking stuff. Practice their culture and such.

Underground rivers go up stream, they pick water on the sea and drop it at the top of the mountains.

Senior manager at Blizzard entertainment.

When I was in High School, a homeless man got on the city bus, sat across from me then proceeded to slap my leg and ask me enthusiastically "What's it like to be a vampire?!" lol I think I responded with "I could bite you and you can find out for yourself?" he kinda leaned away from me. The bus driver saw this and kicked him off the bus. He stood up, started screeching like a pterodactyl and ran out the back doors, off the bus into the dark lmfao! It was an interesting interaction lol!!!!!