Someone Online Asked “What's Your ‘If I'm Going Down I'm Taking You With Me’ Story?”, And 35 Folks Delivered

Mine isn't actually mine but it's my Great Uncle's and it's also super litteral so here goes:

He and his friends we playing near a lake with a hill that over looks it and like you'd expect from late teenagers, they were all jumping off it for fun. Good stuff.

At one point my G.Uncle was prepared to jump off when his friend pushed him. Now it was only a gentle push, just made to make him jump and/or lose his balance so he falls, this backfired horribly for the prankster, however, because my G.Uncle, before falling completely, managed to turn around, grab the prankster's shoulder, and drag them both down into the water.

They both popped their heads above water, dying of laughter along with the rest of the group.

I work for a boat rental company on the lake in my city. I don’t own a boat licence, which is in general not really important because our boats are used for picnics and stuff which means they are drivable without a licence. What is important however, is that the speedboat we use doesn’t fit that criteria, so to drive it we need a licence. It’s used for rescues and whatnot.

Back to the story, there’s this one kid who went to my school at the time who was a goody-two-shoes and has a jealous streak. Except for being overly good and bragging about it he brags about drinking at school. He applied for the same job I did but I ended up being the one to get it. He wasn’t pleased. I ended up talking to my friends about the job and telling them that I didn’t have my boat licence at the time, and apparently he overheard. Anyway, eventually he came with his group of friends about a year later to rent a boat for the day. After they set off I get notified that there was trouble with the boat and I went on the speedboat. I head up to them within a couple minutes and of course it’s them. I fix the issue (issue with the tiller handle) and conveniently the water police for the lake drive by, and this kid who still is annoyed about not getting the job said - ‘he has been working here for a year and doesn’t have his boat licence.’ That p****d me off, they were about to fine me when I said “this kid underage drinks.” I got fined, he got in big trouble with his parents. At least I didn’t lose my job. But I learned to get my licence lol.

My landlord tried to bill me about a thousand dollars worth of water, essentially billing for all the water spent by all tenants. I told him I needed to see the bill from the water company. He said it didn’t exist, it was by his own calculation. Well I told him it was BS and he threatened to evict me so I paid. However I also joined a tenant association and these guys will take a landlord to court and undress him. I told my landlord I had joined the association and to just stay put as they would soon get in contact with him. After a couple of days my landlord shows up at my door, with a piece of paper saying he will repay me and lower my rent if I just stop the case. I asked him how much he would lower my rent, and he said 80 bucks a month. I took the paper and tore it up, shut the door. Couple of days later he’s back, this time saying he will lover it by about 130 bucks a month. I sit him down, take the piece of paper, and hold my pen to it. Then as I’m about to sign it I go: Say, there’s some paint on the front door. Would you mind removing it? He’s all pale now but says yes. I then put my pen to the paper, but just before I sign it I again go Say, it would be really nice if you could clean up the lawn... He agrees again. I think there was one more thing and then he signed it. My rent is nice and low.

My landlord is the scum of the Earth. There been two more cased where the piece of filth has tried to evade the law but us tenants have nailed him. I even had the distinct pleasure of screaming in his face what a waste of human life he is. I used my height and my deep voice and really scared him. I’m not done with him either. He must pay until the bitter end.

When I was a teenager, my second job ever was at Journey's. My manager was terribly irresponsible. He would leave me alone at the store even though he wasn't supposed to do that. He kept the back room a mess so that merchandise would get lost back there and our inventory would be off. He'd steal commission from our sales by ringing them under his name. But most egregiously, he habitually turned a blind eye when his friends would shoplift when they visited. Our shrink rate was sky high. Like, thousands and thousands of dollars of merchandise missing from a small store in a suburban mall. When he finally got caught, he implicated the whole staff, so they fired literally everyone. I was devastated. I had a hard time getting another job after that for a while. Turns out getting fired from your second job ever for being implicated in a shoplifting scheme is a really bad look. I hope that guy is still rotting in retail hell. Thanks a lot, Ray.

Just happened last Saturday.

I’ve been accused of buying a minor alcohol at the shop I work at. Of course I didn’t but they don’t see it like that.

I was too awkward to say no to the person who asked so I went to the till and said “x wants me to buy him these, I don’t want to. So can you say that you can’t serve me it?” to the person on the till. However she scanned it and pressed the payment button. So I had to get it refunded and now they have a record of me buying said alcohol. The supervisor that doesn’t like me had to refund them and put in the log book that I was buying x alcohol. Now I’ve been put in a world of s**t and management aren’t taking my side of the story at all and not bothering to ask the person who was on the till what happened and taking what the supervisor said at face value.

I can see why, it’s my word (the guy who’s been there for 7 months) against a supervisor that’s been there for well over half a decade

If this accusation sticks and it gets on my record then I decided that I’d tell every dirty secret of all the people who’ve given me s**t to the manager. I’m not too fussed about the fine, it’s £750 apparently and I can pay that in a two or three months.

I’d tell them that a supervisor is stealing stock, the same supervisor sits on the phone talking to her boyfriend, another supervisor who let kids shoplift and which night is best to do it on, the first supervisor who is using the work computer for Facebook games, work place bullying and sexual harassment, the person who stole from the till, again the first supervisor who doesn’t do her job to the detriment of others, why nothing got done in the shop etc etc.

I’d do this because I want to be a teacher so if this gets on my record I can’t become one. What school is going to accept someone who’s been accused of buying a minor alcohol or having “buying a minor alcohol” on their record. So if this shop is going to f**k me over I’d f**k them over

When I was a little kid, my mom made me hold her hand to cross the street out of Publix (ya know, as parents do). She slipped on a wet spot on the street, screamed “c********r!”, and yanked me down with her. Then she had some kind of misfired reflex, and slapped her hand over my face to try to cushion my fall (I guess?). At the time, I thought my mom was randomly trying to assault me or smth right in the god damn parking lot.

Sort of in the middle of this kind of thing right now.

My boss threatened that if I ran off his favorite worker, that he'd shut the business down. There are a number of vital functions that only I can perform in that office. Nobody else is even close to being trained to do them. He's allowed me to become too important, this is not an ego thing. I'm looking for a job. When I leave, he'll have to close down.

Truly.

I worked as a mechanic and tow truck driver for this man, I had a class A CDL. I could drive any class truck and was a master mechanic, but my specialty was older cars with carburetor.

Anyway, he had a contract with a major moving van company. Where people can rent a truck to move themselves.

This man would go on a service call where a customer left the lights on, replace the batteries. Charge rental company for new batteries. Take the batteries he took out of van, recharge them and do it over and again.

Rental company was paying for new batteries, that were not new. They had been used over and over.

Saw him once taking new tires off a rental truck that fit his tow truck.

When I left, I called rental company and told them.

Dad pushed me into the pool but before I fell in I grabbed his arm.

It’s not super serious but in high school my senior year I checked out mentally. My school took attendance 3rd period (as in that would be the class that if you missed they would call your house) so basically I would leave after 3rd period.

Anyway, 1st and 2nd period were for calculus BC and I had an exam one day. I lived walking distance to school and on the day of the exam I knew I was gonna fail. Just happened to be the case that I saw someone in my class on the way to school and I knew he was going to cheat. So instead of giving him the opportunity to cheat, I ran ahead of him and made it to class before him to take the seat near the smartest guy in the class.

When the classmate I passed on the way to school showed up he went directly to me and told me to give him that seat. I told him that i knew he would cheat and so if I’m going to fail he’ll also have to fail. I wouldn’t budge so he was forced to sit somewhere else and we both failed. I don’t like to cheat on exams, it makes me anxious when thinking of getting caught so I was gonna take my L but also take that guy down with me.

Growing up my best friend and I got in trouble for cutting up brand new, expensive jeans to make shorts. Her mom was (rightfully) screaming at me, so I said, "what about [her daughter], she asked me to and handed me the scissors?" and got us both grounded so at least we could sit together in her room lol.

If you're Canadian, you've done this to your bff while slipping on ice outside of school at least once in your life.

When I was a kid, I was at a Chinese restaurant sitting next to my uncle. As he put his teacup down, he spilled some on the table cloth, so I laughed at him. He laughs too, then he takes my teacup and upends it on the table in front of me then says to my Dad "Hey! Look at this mess!"

I mean, that's it's normal to make a mess in a Dim Sum restaurant, but still.

When I was in grade 6, I waited all recess to use the swing, right when it was my turn, a kid a year younger stole it and I asked him to get off politely, but he didn't get off. I got really p****d and tried roll the seat under him to get him off forcefully, then he got up and punched me in the rib and then face, I didn't really feel it though. The fact is, we both got in trouble, part of me kind of knew something like this would happen when I pushed him off.

Egged an Ex’s house when I was young, only one guy got caught, pulled the entire 8 of us down. That one sucked.