“My Friends Didn’t Believe Me”: 76 Internet Users Reveal Events From Their Lives That Seem Too Wild To Be True

I crashed a boat into a puppet theatre. Very, very slowly.

It was my birthday and unfortunately my ex-mother-in-law had overflowed the last cartridge toilet on our narrowboat, meaning I had no choice but to take the boat itself to the waste disposal point, rather than lugging our three full cartridge toilets a mile across town in a bike trailer as I usually did, which at least involved not having to drive a boat.

The notable thing about the waste disposal point - essentially a giant bucket - was that it was in an area of the canal where turning around was very tight and difficult. I got there, moored the boat, and emptied the toilets (splashing my arm with my ex-mother-in-law's piss in the process), and unfortunately, as I left, that was when my narrowboat decided it wasn't going to steer at all in reverse. At all.

So first I crashed inexorably slowly into a floating café, the waitstaff of which swore at me in Polish, and then I crashed equally slowly into the puppet theatre moored on the other side of the canal.

I had no choice but to tether myself to the puppet theatre and sheepishly await rescue from the irascible handyman who lived on our mooring and begrudgingly helped out hapless hipster boaters, of which my ex and I were definitely two.

It wasn't a good birthday...

*not her fault - obviously we should have planned better, and these were the consequences.

I was having a liver biopsy and jokingly asked the doctor if it was his first time doing it and he said yes.

I watched my neighbor get hit by lightning and essentially explode.

William Shatner helped me change a tire when I got a flat down the street from one of his houses.

When I was a kid we went on a vacation and somehow everything i did or tried ended up being free. I would walk up to a soda machine, press a button and get a free soda, just once per thing. I'd go to buy food and the registers would be down so they gave it to me etc. I got free ride on a carousel, free newspapers, hot chocolate, a t shirt and some other small things. Its odd, not to this degree but I've gotten free food or things all my life up until a year or 2 ago, hell I even won free Wendy's for a year by playing a mobile app.

In the 90’s lifesaver storybooks had sweepstakes where you could win $1MM if you found “5 golden rings” on the inside wrapper. I never ate the butter rum flavor. Years later I was cleaning out my [stuff] before college and found a half eaten lifesaver storybook…gross, I know. As I was throwing them away I opened the butter rum thinking “wouldn’t it be ironic” and it was $1MM winner, 4 years expired. I sat in shock for a while before throwing it away.

I coughed too suddenly and broke a rib.

I was driving from Tucson Arizona to Durango Colorado. My route took me through the Navajo Reservation. I pulled over just outside Shiprock New Mexico to get some sleep. It was around midnight. I woke an hour later from a nightmare of angry faces and bright colors coming at me from all directions. I started the engine and turned on the headlights. Ten feet in front of me was a coyote and a jack rabbit sitting side by side staring at me. Years later I was dating a Navajo girl and when I told her about what happened she became visibly upset and told me never to speak of it again.

I once was picked out of a group of high schoolers to race in an obstacle course against an Army Ranger to show how fast they were at it. They had a guy who was supposed to be their fastest. I ended up winning. Several people running the event told me later that I wasn't supposed to win.

I was on a road trip one time and it rained frogs in the middle of the night.
The plops on the windshield were the first thing we noticed. We pulled over because we didn't want to run over frogs. Ive worried I imagined it for years, but my family remembers it too.

My girlfriend broke up with me because her parents “would never allow us to be together.” I drove 5 hours to her parent’s house to profess my unwavering love… I accidentally crashed a wedding. She had been arranged to be married. This was Texas in 2005 - crazy! I still can’t believe it. The marriage was annulled and her and I did not live happily ever after 🤷‍♂️.

While I thought it only happened in old Warner Brothers cartoons, I actually slipped on a banana peel in a parking lot.

I was alone in an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere at like 3am. i somehow managed to lock myself out of my car. i can usually get back in if i had a wired coat hanger. right in front of me like 2 feet was a wired coat hanger.

I had a ligament in my body grow over my celiac artery, effectively cutting off the blood flow to my digestive organs.

When they opened me up to fix it they cut out the ligament to discover that what they cut out was actually an EXTRA Median Arcuate Ligament and the original was still under it.

They also figured out that the reason these ligaments sat so low is because my diaphragm was twice the size it should have been.

So I didn't just have Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS), I had DOUBLE MALS.

At the time I was the first case of the extra ligament discovered in a human body.
I believe I still am but can't be certain.

When I was 16 I was on my way back from visiting England for a funeral. Another girl on the same flight kept kind of glancing at me, blushing, occasionally waving, and giggling. Not only was she on my main flight from England to Atlanta, she was also on the same flight from Atlanta to KC, so this continued the whole time (so much so, that as we were boarding the connector, my younger brother turned to me and said "I don't understand, you aren't attractive enough for this").

A week later she started attending my high school in Olathe, KS, a year above me. We never spoke, but I passed her on the way to the music room every day, and every day she turned bright red. She was beautiful too, but unfortunately while my school had many lesbians, I was not one of them. Still, I have never been a fan of my appearance, and I'd be lying if I said that didn't give me at least a little bit of a confidence boost (and that year, I sorely needed one). I hope wherever she is, she is a little less shy these days, and doing well.

One time my back was writing, I could not move without sharp pains and I can barely sleep. Went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and was sitting on the toilet trying to ease myself when I just farted. Then my back popped, the relief was amazing and the pain was gone. 


Another was me buying scratch tickets, something I used to do with my mom. Spent 5 bucks, won 5 bucks, bought more, won about 5k.*.

My mom ran into JFK Jr, alone on a beach in South Boston at around 6am when I, a toddler at the time, ran over to him. He picked me up and held me as he chatted with her. She said he was a very nice man.

I met dozens of members of the Saudi Arabian royal family in Cleveland, Ohio, around 2012. The King's wife or someone at that tier needed a transplant so they were all at the Cleveland Clinic to be present for and support her. They bought out the entire 8th floor of the hospital and catered hundreds of Domino's personal pizzas every night for the staff, delivered to the lobby on pallets. I played a mobile game with someone who was single-digits in line for the throne. My mom got one of the princesses a cough drop when she needed one and they brought her right into the fold.

I went on a date with a guy many years ago; he was so self-absorbed he didnt stop talking about himself for more than an hour and a half into our dinner. When he finally went to the bathroom, even the couple sitting next to us had recognized how insufferable he was to the extent that they turned to me and suggested they could help rescue me from the date… Fast-forward a couple decades and this same date-guy is making millions with his books and Ted talk and is on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram as a well-known self-help guru influencer. I won’t name him here but the guy isn’t married (much less even in a relationship!) and he is interviewed endlessly by other podcasters and he has a massive following droning on and on about relationships and other ways to “be human.” Life lesson learned - he who talks most makes millions.

I almost blew someone’s investigation while trying to flirt with an undercover cop.

I left a wallet with $600 in a locker at a theme park. The kind you use only for the duration of the ride but you rent n a computer. When I realized about 4 hours later, I went back. The locker had been rented again and while waiting for a tech to arrive and pop the locker a ride let out and people flooded the area to gather items from their lockers. When the crowd passed another couple was there and couldn’t pop their locker. Somehow we realized it was my locker.i asked them if they saw a wallet, they said no . So we both waited for said tech. On a whim I suggest we try my locker code and sure enough it worked in the computer. They grabbed their bag and I found my wallet in the back. So bizarre. Hours had gone by but my code worked and my stuff was untouched.

Moved up north to a different city for university. Started working in a bar. New fella starts and asks for my Facebook. Has my best mate from home as a mutual friend. Asked him how he knows him. Said they'd never met in person but they used to play Xbox back in 2011 together. Small world.