“I Got Fired The Next Day”: 49 Unexpected And Awkward Times People Saw Something They Weren’t Supposed To

I had a sergeant that was all about bulking up and exercising. Great sergeant and very knowledgeable about health and physical fitness.


I was cleaning out a hmmwv and found a notebook and I opened it to see who left it. Written inside was a bunch of insecurities like “when I’m small I feel weak and worthless” and other such written very frankly like that.


I knew immediately that I saw nothing, touched nothing, and did not clean that hmmwv. Just dropped that book and walked away.

Drunken CEO groping the VP at a company dinner - his wife was outside, and she also worked in the office.

My friend's mother accidentally sent me a topless pic, thinking she was sending it to her partner.

When I was in college I was walking back home from the bars one night. I wasn't feeling great so I decided to call it an early night and head home. As I'm walking up the street where the club scene is I notice that there's a couple of vans parked in an alley. I also see some guys walking in and out of a building wearing all black and a couple looked like they were either fat, or wearing bullet proof vests. A guy sees me watching them and approaches me saying, "You need to hurry it along bud." And kinda hurries me past. I think to myself, "Huh. That was peculiar." I finally get home and don't think about it again until the next morning when a buddy who used to work as a bouncer at a bar in town texts me and asks if I'd seen the news yet? I said no and I grab my laptop and open up the browser for one of the local NBC affiliates. Apparently one of the other clubs in town was running a massive d**g ring out of the back. They were raided the night before, and I just happened to stumble on their staging area. I believe the guys who were busted are still in prison today.

Stayed home sick from school one day. Had to pee, but someone was in the shower, so I knocked to ask when they would be out. Door immediately opens to full frontal of my dad. We both just freeze and stare, then I run back to my room. Apparently he didn’t get the message that I was home sick and assumed I must be my mother. Next day there was a sign on the bathroom door ‘ beware crazy [bare] man’ LOL.

I work pizza delivery. Someone ordered dinner to a brand new Mom and didn't tell her it was coming. Or she forgot. She opened the door in full wonderful post-life giving beauty and not much else. I got one quick glance and then immediately made direct eye contact with her forehead and said, "Hi, [  ] for X?"


I'm not entirely sure she was aware I was there, because she just goes, "Oh hey. Hi. Come on in. Sorry for the yeah. Just set it down where you can find room. Let me just get ...". I had been paid and tipped, so I just unloaded it on the kitchen counter, bade her a goodnight in a stage whisper and left. 

Saw my coworker [without clothes] when she was showing me pictures of her current girlfriend.

I use to work security in a corporate building, randomly looked over at the CCTV cameras and saw two co workers playing tonsil hockey in the elevator. The guy got married a week prior and the woman was his wife's maid of honor.

Saw an “I love you” message from the intern to my coworker when he was showing me something on his phone. He is her direct supervisor and she is 18 year old.

Edit: this coworker is 28 and when the message popped up the interns names had a heart beside it.

Was on a business trip to NYC and following GPS walking directions when it took me through an alley/small side street. As I entered the alley, I liked the view (think it might have been part of Washington Square Park, don’t remember), so I stopped and took out my phone to take a picture. As I was doing so, a pretty girl, probably college age, few years younger than me, walked into the alley at the opposite end and towards me. Not trying to be rude/a creep, I put my phone down. Just as I did, she walked over a grate on the street.

I guess at this point I should tell you she was wearing a skirt.

The air rushing up from the grate lifted her skirt so high up her body Marylin Monroe would have blushed.

She frantically tamed her skirt and gained her composure, but to quote Patrick Stewart, I saw everything.

We both walked the hundred feet that separated us without saying a word or making eye contact. Just pretended like nothing happened and passed each other like ships in the night.

I think about New York Girl from time to time. I hope she’s doing well.

I have the same name as a friend's girlfriend and she accidentally sent me [revealing pics] instead of her.

Popped by a pizza by the slice shop after classes were over for the day, and the two employees were making out / heavy petting / groping in the back and didn't realize there was a customer for a bit.

I was about 12 years old and unbeknownst to my dad I was following him down the stairs down to my mom. All the sudden he stops on the stairs and opens his robe and quick closes it. Little did he realize there was a mirror at the bottom of the stairs and he flashed is preteen daughter.

When I was a receptionist, the boss's wife would take over the front desk when I took lunch and use my computer. When I returned one afternoon, she was still logged into the computer when I sat back down. Up on the screen - her Ashley Madison profile.

When I was in like the 4th grade we read this book about a kid who accidentally sees the count for the contest where you have to guess the number of jelly beans in the jar, and to coincide with this book the teacher was running her own jelly bean jar counting contest. This other kid and I were looking at the jar and we took the lid off and written under the lid was the number of jelly beans in the jar. The teacher saw us and stepped in quick but we had defiantly seen it.

I threw the contest, the other kid did not and he went home with the jar of jelly beans.

I was 17. I got home from a babysitting job and quietly went upstairs, only to stop suddenly when I heard my parents' bed squeaking loudly.

I slowly backed up, quietly, and went and sat in the living room and read for 20 minutes.

😫.

Walked in on my brother and his “not girlfriend” last week when i didnt even think he was home and my boyfriend left his airpods in my brothers room.

When I was a satellite TV tech I went to a customers 2nd floor apartment, scouted my termination points indoors, and then went out to setup the ladder. The unit on the first floor had nothing covering the sliding door (it did face an empty field) that provided me with a clear view of the tenant on her couch going to town with a battery operated boyfriend. Just propped up my ladder and climbed.

Different than most, when I was in USMC boot camp I was lucky to be part of a small group of recruits that were selected to wake up early, make our beds, go to chow early, come back and clean the squad bay before everyone else got back from chow. It made boot camp a lot better. In each squad bay is a small office where the drill instructors do their thing, me and some other guys were talking about what might have been in there and someone dared me to go in.

What I found was a small sheet of laminated paper with the week’s schedule. It was big enough to fit in a breast pocket and I remembered seeing the drill instructors refer to it often. It was more or less a survival guide to boot camp. I memorized most of it after 10 minutes of constant scanning. It had some rules and regulations the drill instructors had to follow, like no PT within a certain time after chow and down to the exact minute that we would be in class or practicing drill. The drill instructors would always threaten that they would [mess] us up after chow because we did something wrong, it never phased me because I knew they legally couldn’t.

I knew when the schedule was too tight for any of that and more importantly I knew when the schedule allowed plenty of time for some one on one time with a drill instructor. Every Monday I would b line straight to the office when no one was around and take a long look at that sheet and never got caught.

Walked in on my (then) bf taking a shower with his ex.