47 Things People Accidentally Saw That They Wish They Could Erase From Memory

My boss steal money out of our cash register.

My mom used to work at my grade school, and the front office people would take turns hosting some of their meetings at each other’s homes during the summer when there were no students on campus. They would have food and drinks and it would be a bit more fun than a school setting. So I’m in my parents bedroom watching TV during the meeting that my mom was hosting at our house. We only had one bathroom in our house and it had two doors into it—one door from the hall and one door from my parents room. You can see where this is going right?

I knew it was safe to go in and use the bathroom because I could see under the door when a light was on. The light was off, so I walk over and throw the door open and walk inside. It wasn’t until I was in the room that I realized that my grade school principal was in there mid-pulling up her underwear from using the bathroom. She didn’t turn the light on and she only bothered to lock the door on the hallway door. I was only in there for a second, but it was too late to unsee what I saw. I’m not going to sit here and be mean, because she was a nice lady and she always looked out for me at school, but what I saw terrified me. She was a big lady and she wore these big, modest outfits. And she was just in that terribly vulnerable state—a half second earlier and she would have been sitting there just chilling out, or a half second later and her underwear would have been up and her dress would have been down. I just walked in at the worst possible moment. It was too much for my young brain to process.

Until this very moment, I’ve never told anyone this.

The owner of the theater chain I worked for was taking a photo with his girlfriend (can't remember but I think he left his wife for her). They were facing toward the lobby with their backs to the concession stand where I was. He slipped his hand in her pants and squeezed her behind real hard. I wanted to say "Hey bud, your employees don't wanna see that".

I walked in on a black market plastic surgery. Hanging out with a buddy from middle school. Was shady about only staying in his room and entering through his back door and being quiet. We were leaving and I turn down the wrong hall to his kitchen and there was a doctor and assistances in scrubs. Tubes, machines and plastic wrap everywhere. I was ushered out screamed at and told not to talk about it.

Edit: this happened years ago while a freshman in college and was either a lipo or tummy tuck i don’t remember. He told me the doc only did those and Botox if I remember correctly. This was done in a low middle class neighborhood so not super ghetto. To me it was not done in a clean environment but who am I to judge lol.

Edit2: This happened in Houston Texas when I was visiting family/friends one weekend while in college. He wanted me to follow him after he checked to see if his parents were around. He told me to follow him and ran but I was sitting down across the room so I got up, turned the corner to the kitchen which connected to the living room to leave thru the front door. He wanted me to leave out the back door thru his sister’s room but I didn’t see him turn that way (he should have waited for me lol).

Edit 3 (last?): I texted him and he said the doctor got caught a few years ago for transporting Botox, antibiotics and pain pills and his parents haven’t heard from him in awhile. He apparently only did weight loss stuff and did discount diagnosis for the poor. Told people if stuff was serious enough to go get appointments/test done.

Many years ago in the early days of the doritos locos tacos, I was at an empty Taco Bell with my now husband just enjoying some artery clogging food when a bunch of guys in suits came into the Taco Bell and sat down to have a meeting. This Taco Bell was in the hood, so they were very out of place. My husband ignored them, but I did my best to listen in. They were discussing plans for a new menu item, but I couldn't tell what exactly. Then in the corner of my eye I saw what I was certain was a prototype wrapper for a cool ranch doritos loco taco. The suits left before we did. I told my husband what I saw as soon as they left. Sure enough, about a month later this Taco Bell became one of the test restaurants for the cool ranch doritos locos tacos, which was released nationwide soon afterwards.

Was in middle school at the beach with my parents/siblings and a bunch of our family friends and their kids.

Went into the water with a few other kids my age. Waves weren't crazy, but high enough to "jump into" while waded in waist/chest height.

One girl had her two piece swimsuit knocked half off and didn't notice. We were both like twelve and I didn't even know what to say so I just stared dumbly. After a few seconds she realized what had happened because I was just standing there mouth agape so she quickly turned around to tie her bikini back on. The other kids were a ways down the beach and didn't notice, or didn't say anything. Her and I never spoke about it.

We didn't really hang out much as we got older and I'm pretty sure this incident was partially why lol.

I volunteered at a hospital when I was in high school. One time they brought in an unconscious woman, intubated her, and left me alone to take notes and hang around. Well the nurse made a mistake and put the air tube in her esophagus, so the lady started to blow up like a balloon. After a few minutes, she goes into cardiac arrest (still super swollen like a balloon) and the doctor and more nurses get called into to try and revive her. The doctor starts giving CPR, then looks over at me and says “get this kid out of here!” I’m pretty sure that lady did not survive.

Parked in a shady part of the neighbourhood. Not even that deep in. I was literally the 3rd car from the corner where it all starts.

I’m relaxing in the car, on my phone, minding my own business. Next thing I know this motorbike speeds in from the left, parks in front of me. Another shady guy wearing the darkest shades and a bucket hat rushed in front of me from the right.

Here they are, quick exchanging backpacks, both of them looking around or for what I assume is cops.

I panicked. But I wasn’t obvious. I just went to my library, blasted music and got outta there. I didn’t speed away, a calm outta there.

It was midday.

My wife sleeping clothed with another dude in our bed on new years eve.

To get a little more in depth (Since, there is so much interest)

I was working a door shift at a bar that night. Got no texts throughout the evening from her saying HAPPY NEW YEAR. So when I got home I'm walking down the stairs to our part of the house and I notice the TV is on. So I'm like W*F she's still awake and our bedroom light is on. I walk over and see her and this dude passed out on the bed fully clothed, but all the sheets had been removed. I yelled "WHAT THE F**K" and they both jolted up. All I remember is saying "Get the f**k out of my house" "NO you're not putting your shoes on, get the f**k out" to the guy. I grabbed his backpack and whatever else he had and threw it out the front door in our driveway.

My wife and I didn't really say much that night. She left 10 mins later to stay at the hotel she worked at (also the dude worked there). Soon she moved into that same hotel after we broke up. We tried to work things out for a little bit, but the fact that she became an alcoholic and was very a*****e in the past, I had enough.

Fast forward.... I've been in a super healthy relationship for 4 years. She wen't to rehab. Then she moved to a different state and became a m**h head and was arrested 5x.

Funny note: I'm a huge Denver Nuggets fan and I go to a lot of games. Turns out this guy was part of the crew who does backflips during commercial breaks. I had to see this mother f****r over and over ...lol.

My ex-boyfriend wanted to show me something online but accidentally opened a tab for a site selling engagement rings. He was embarrassed and I thought it was sweet even if it was a bit soon.

Edit: we broke up a few months ago. He was my first love and it broke my heart.

My dad, as he was at the hospital, behind curtains in the ER, getting the defibrillator applied to him. Unfortunately I saw his body arch on the table.

I accidentally got an email in my first real job asking me how far along we were with shutting down the company's branch I was at. Confused, I basically replied back with an email saying "I think you made a mistake, wrong person, no idea what you're talking about, we aren't shutting down." I start telling my buddy next to me about what a weird email I got.

Second highest boss overhears my conversation and goes ballistic on me. Sure enough, we were shutting down. I wasn't supposed to know. The person emailed me thinking I was in my previous position which was a job that would have had a pretty heavy hand in shutting us down on the paperwork side. It was shocking. The next day, that same boss continued to yell at me telling me I should have had the maturity to not talk about an email I wasn't supposed to receive. I just couldn't get a word in and he wasn't having it that I honest to goodness had no idea we were shutting down and thought it was just such a weird email to get and brought it up as casual conversation like "hey, what a weird thing, I wonder who he meant to send this to? It's definitely not our branch!"

Found out a company I worked for was overbilling a massive corporation when I was troubleshooting report generation. I was fired two weeks after discovering. The entire department was let go two weeks after that.

When I was 13 or 14 I heard a woman screaming outside. I lived in a bad neighborhood and looked out the blinds of my second floor bedroom window to check. I saw two guys pulling her by the arms into the back of an SUV. One guy looked up in my direction at one point and I ducked down until the screaming stopped. When I checked outside again the SUV was gone.

I don't know what ever happened to that woman and I'll forever be haunted by that night because I didn't call the cops or do anything to otherwise prevent what was pretty clearly a kidnapping.

I also accidentally read one line of my ex-boyfriends diarys. (Sorry if you read this!!) It fell off the shelf while he was in the shower and as i picked it up i read "... really helped me to cope with my moms cancer diagnosis; shes an angel" or something. Thought it was sweet at the time.

A dishonest idiot kid at a concession stand at a nature center stealing money from the cash register while making change for me for a purchase.

Once, I was in this special class in 3rd grade with a few other kids, and this one kid we didn't know came in the room sobbing, and the teacher, named Mr. Christopherson, went behind a curtain with him and started screaming at him. This went on for about 10 minutes, and me and the other kids were absolutely silent the whole time. Afterwards, he told us to go back to our regular class. The creepiest part was that he came into my class and told me not to say anything about it. I ended up telling one of my friends who was curious, and he stopped working there shortly after. Last summer, I thought about it out of the blue, and messaged some of the kids in that class if they remembered it, but they didn't respond. It was the strangest and one of the most disturbing things I have ever witnessed.

Oh boy, quite a few!

I'll go with this one, since it has a distinct flavor from most of the others.

When I was in college, a beautiful sunny day, late morning in May, a friend and I decided to skip class and go playing pool at a nearby tavern. A few beers and games later, the lunch rush being over, the place was empty save for one waiter and us.

Two huge guys with sunglasses ans trenchcoats (unwarranted, remember nice and sunny) enter the joint, take 3 steps and stop.
It was clear that the waiter knew who they were. Within 30 seconds he gave them a bundle of bills with immediately disappeared in a pocket.
The guys turned and left.
Not a word was said.

Until then I thought that the mafia was some kind of urban legend and very far removed from my sheltered life...

My brother and I were very curious children..

One day he pulled me into our spare bathroom all excited because he had found a “huge surprise” in the garbage can beside the toilet. Inside the garbage can there was a tortilla chip bag with a whole bunch of rolled up things inside...

We opened it up thinking that they were surprise toys (like kinder surprise) left inside the bag by accident. Nope, they were my mom’s bloody pads.

My exes reddit where he was asking for relationship advice.