51 Times Tiny Communities Somehow Produced Enough Drama For An Entire Reality Show

Our neighbor was arrested last night and while she was sat on the bench outside her place, we could hear the police questioning her and she actually said “I only broke in because I knew they were doing it. They’re brother and sister! It’s wrong!”

Dude was a mid-level manager at a Big Tech Store I worked at in college. I remember the *moment* I met him I was skeeved out and then shocked most others liked him or told me he “wasn’t that bad”. FF 10 years and I have a feeling he’s getting divorced from the lack of his wife on his posts and google him. I found a “ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT” and learn he was accused and charged for defrauding investors for 2.4 million dollars. It was WILD.

ten years ago i watched the reddit calligraphy sub tear itself apart and go down in a hailstorm of drama over whether or not doing cursive with a brush pen counts as calligraphy. i’m making it sound bad but trust, it was genuinely INCREDIBLY entertaining to watch.

My employee showed up to work today in a graphic tshirt and I had to drive 35 min to give him a new shirt and tell him to change because I received 5 separate phone calls/ texts about the unprofessionalism of scooby doo.

Our (fairly small) high school staff room had a lunch thief. Despite regular emails and signs and announcements at staff meetings, it continued. One of the teachers finally had enough and crashed all the way out, letting EVERYONE (including district level admin) know via email that he was DONE and had spit in his hummus.

HBD! Our school superintendent resigned suddenly last year, which was shortly followed by the revelation that a board member had bilked the district for over $90k in a deal that the superintendent had “unwittingly” signed off on. But really they were swingers and that was blackmail money…

My upstairs neighbors who kept trying to convert me suddenly told me they were moving out. I was so sad, since our girls were playmates. Turns out the husband was an undercover missionary to India and had gotten arrested on a trip. He was held for weeks in bad conditions and threatened with years in prison if he didn’t give up his network…
He gave them up. When he got back, the mission was “understanding”. Right up until they fired him a week later.

I worked with a doctor in a small practice and he suddenly closed the local office bc he told his wife he was having an affair with our coworker and wanted to get divorced to be with her. It went sideways and instead he laid us off and moved to Florida full time. She’s suing him now.

Garden threads is all a buzz because someone bought what they thought was a pepper plant, but it was basil. They let the flowers bolt, so now EVERYONE is telling them to prune it and let it bush out. They are also getting tons of recipes and advice for freezing and saving. Garden threads gossip ends in general help from newly invested threinds; it’s my favorite threads.

I studied abroad in Panama in college. For our final project, we all wrote papers cumulating the research we each had been working on for the whole semester. One of the other students had finished her paper, titled “Sustainability for Some”, but someone snuck onto her computer and replaced every instance of “sustainabl-“ with “poopabl-“. Her paper was now “Poopability for Some,” and the whole thing talked about “poopability”. The teacher is the one who noticed, after it was turned in.

My mom belonged to an erudite, intellectual and very small Facebook group for people who loved the novels of a well-known 19th century English author. Everybody in the group had known each other (online) for years.

One day, the group was overtaken by one of the members’ wives furiously posting screenshots of all the sexting conversations that had happened between her husband and a female group member. (1/2).