50 Unsettling Sentences That Stopped Conversations Cold

The last conversation I had with my father 20 years ago. “If that’s the worst you saw, then you’re doing pretty good.” We were speaking about the abuse I saw as a child.

Dude who ran the local pizza shop had a few drinks one night and mentioned that the reason they immigrated to the US was that his dad, an older dude who was always sitting in the corner of the restaurant reading, had strangled a dude to death in a bar fight and they had to GTFO of their home country to avoid prosecution/retribution.

It wouldn’t be unsettling to me now because I’ve gotten used to it but at the time it was unsettling because I’d never experienced it before. Probably the first time a schizophrenic client disclosed their delusions/hallucinations to me. The reason why I found it unsettling was because she casually dropped it into conversation as if it was completely real and I was privy to that “knowledge” too. I was completely floored because one minute we were making small talk and the next she was saying something completely terrifying. It just goes to show how real it is for them. It’s heartbreaking.

A friend of mine got wasted one night at a bar I used to own, before he left he gave me a hug and said he wanted to say goodbye to me for being a good friend, he then tells me that he was leaving town next day because he was working with a government agency and was going to k*ll somebody in the morning that was stopping the progress of the town we live in, I laughed and took it as a drunk joke, he left with a bunch of friends.
Next morning another friend called me to say that our friend jumped off a boat and died.

I was chatting with a lady I just met while waiting in a lounge. We got into the topic of having kids, she has two and I said my husband and I are still enjoying each other's company since we just got married, we don't want it yet. And she said, "I know someone whose husband said he didn't want kids, and he ended up having an affair AND having kids with the mistress."

I have no idea what her intention was. I still get confused when I remember it.

I had a tall muscular man in the locker room when I worked at Firestone point his finger in my face and say: "you don't f**k with me Bailey, I'll be your worst nightmare." He ended up being m**dered several months later, his body was found in a parking lot on University Ave. in Des Moines.

That I have “rotten blood” because of my family history.

Whilst playing Clair De Lune, a woman once said “ I guess this is as close as I’ll ever get to making love to you.”.

One time, when I was Djing, a drunk guy came up on stage just to tell me he thinks I look like Lena Dunam. He meant this as a compliment.

I do not look like Lena Dunam.

When my husband told me - first thing he said on my birthday in this ugly rushed voice - that my birthday present was the Comcast visit they’d apparently charged for - after asking me prior what I’d like for my bday. Ok fine whatever -grey rock- but it hurt.

That day I finally realized he’s actually intending to be cruel and it actually made my blood run cold.