51 Situations That Escalated Faster Than Anyone Could React

Well.... hmm okay. My knees are double jointed. As are my arms, and thumbs. So I went over to sit by one of my friends, and I sat on my leg, in a way that apparently made it look like it was broken. So she asked me if I was okay. I still didn’t get why she was so freaked out, so I just started eating a pack of fruit snacks. Then she asked me if my leg was okay, and I said yeah. She started staring at it and was saying that it was making her nauseous because it looked like my leg was broken. So then I stood up, and showed her my leg’s full range of motion, which at the time I thought it was normal to have your knee appear to be backwards... and she passed out. It uhhh it wasn’t a great time.

Side note: I showed her the thumb thing later and she was not a fan of that either.

A previous coworker of mine went on a fiveish minute tirade about how much he hated me. To my face, while at work, in front of ten other people, including our boss. Up until that point I had never met someone who had disliked me so strongly (at least no one who said anything about it.) so I thought he was joking for the first minute or so.

I stood there with this incredulous grin on my face until he paused for breath and one of my other coworkers asked if he was serious. He said "F**k yeah I'm being serious." and started accusing me of being racist, disrespectful, and of favoritism. None of which were true. That quickly wiped the grin off my face and I stood there dumbfounded until my boss came over and told him to stop talking and to walk away.

Everyone stood around kinda shell shocked for a bit before we laughed it off. No one knew where it had come from, and he spent the rest of his time there trying to convince everyone else that I was evil, but they all ignored him. I am extremely grateful for that. He could have made that job a complete hellhole.

"There's a healing crystal in my foof."

I thought she was joking, but no. Asked her if she believed in it, "not really". I think she realised how silly it was. What a woman, though.

My recently divorced supervisor came to me, said "enough of the flirting, ur coming to my house tomorrow".

Told my teachers I was autistic, they instantly shifted their demeanor and started patronizing me and talking to me like I was some kind of sub-human trash.

My initial thoughts were that it was just a dumb joke in poor taste, but... y'know... :/.

When my friend told me she was getting a divorce. I literally laughed and said "Oh, sure you are." Then I saw her face.

And then they said "don't leave your house for two weeks".

When my childhood friend told me their parents were getting divorced. I was like, "haha, you shouldn't joke about that... Oh wait....".

When a co-worker tried to convince me to vote "Leave" in the brexit vote.

It was my first tinder date. We were figuring out what to order and he asked me if I was some ridiculously specific type of vegan, like free range all organic only local veganism. I thought he was making a joke so I laughed a good deep belly laugh for at least a minute but stopped and said oh when I realized he was serious and that was what he actually was. We got a fancy small pizza that he proceeded to rip apart pieces of but didn’t even eat, guess it wasn’t okay for his diet.

I didn't take the the pandemic seriously unti l got laid off because of it.