greenmangostudio

This happened two years ago. Visited England on vacation. I had with me a wad of a wad of 5+ year old British currency that I was eager to spend. When I arrived, I was told that the old currency was no longer valid. The country had switched from paper to plastic. I could exchange the old notes only by visiting the main Bank of England building in downtown London. So I make the trip to central London and visit the Bank of England building. Wait for hours, and finally get the counter where the bank goblins take my old currency and my passport and forms and exchange the old notes for new notes. They ask how I'd like the new cash, so I tell them I'd like some 20-pound notes and the rest in 50-pound notes (they don't have 100-pound notes). The next day, am out shopping and tender a 50-pound note for payment. I discover that nobody in England accepts the 50-pound note. Apparently there's a counterfeiting problem. So, I have to use a credit card everywhere, and am still st...

It is going to be our anniversary and she is a very fit and tech girl. Saw some smart rings for sale in Costco and decided to give one to her. She saw me looking at her jewelry box with a tape measure and asked me what I was doing and told her that I wanted to know her ring size and didn’t think much about it. She told I’m 6-7 like nothing and that was it. This was a week ago and apparently she told my in laws about it. That I’m going to propose. So apparently now everybody thinks I’m going to propose. At this point I have no idea how to fix the situation besides actually giving her a ring. She is a very cool girl and would understand the situation if explained. However probably will make things a bit awkward at least TL;DR. I asked my girlfriend her ring size to give her a smart ring and now everybody things I’m going to propose

a while back i met this girl online through social media. she followed me first and we started talking in dms. within like the first 10 minutes i was already pretty sure she was a catfish. the pics were a little too professional looking. ive been on the internet long enough to recognize the signs. reversed search some of them and yeah it was some small influencer ive never heard of. so i asked her straight up if she was actually the girl in the photos. surprisingly she admitted it almost immediately. said she wasnt the girl in the pics and just used them because she was insecure. she apologized a lot and said she’d understand if i stopped talking to her. but honestly we were already vibing. she was funny and easy to talk to so i just said it was fine and i was down to still be friends. she seemed to be really happy and then told me who she “actually” was. new name, different pics, where she was from and stuff. so we kept talking. almost every day. games, random life stuff, late nig...

Hello Reddit, today I (17f) screwed my high school social life forever. I am currently in a state required gym class that also comes with a state required sex ed portion (yay…). We were on the subject of STI’s and I made the mistake of jokingly asking my teacher if eye gonorrhea could be caught by touching the infected area. It wasn’t entirely joking as I was genuinely curious as to if STI’s which are out in the open like cold sores and stuff can be passed onto other people by touch. I was sadly under the impression that a classroom full of high school mean girls would respect my curiosity… but I was wrong… when i was asking my question, everyone in the back of the classroom (I was near the teacher in the front) began hooting and hollering with “ooohs” and “aaahs” as if they’d just heard something downright disgusting. this was after I said “eye gonorrhea”. I naively believed that this was because the idea of gonorrhea in your eye is a genuinely disturbing occurrence that most people ...

So basically what the title says. My best friend, lets call her T, and I have a birthday a day apart and so this always makes plans tricky. This year is our sophomore year in college, in different states, and I didn’t know she would be home during our party and made other plans that happened to overlap with hers. This was no big deal between us and we figured it out with no issues. Even made seperate time to see each other the day of each others birthday. So T has a god brother, we’ll call him M. He and I became really close during sophomore year of high school and he was really there for me when I lost someone super close to me. At one point we were both closer to each other than either of us was with T. Him and I ended up staying really close friends until he got a girlfriend at the end of senior year. She started to come around the friend group and I think she caught wind of how much our friends would make jokes about us (me and M) being in love and like perfect for each other. Su...

I guess it’s my turn. Obligatory- this happened Sunday. For context: I am a waitress. I have been a waitress for many years, I love my job, and I like to think that most days I’m pretty good at it. I had a table with a very nice older couple, everything was fine. As they were finishing up the gentlemen offered me his plate to take away, and as I did, the woman made a sort of jokingly protective gesture over hers. I laughed and said “don’t worry, ma’am, I won’t touch your plate until you’re ready, I know that’s a good way to lose an arm!” It’s the same stupid joke I’ve said probably a thousand times. They laughed, I laughed, and then I panicked, because the gentleman had no arms from the elbow down. I practically fled back to the kitchen where I asked my boss to fire me immediately so I wouldn’t have to go back out there. She refused, which I thought was inconsiderate. I still haven’t recovered. I don’t think I will recover. TL;DR I joked about losing a limb for taking someone’s pl...