greenmangostudio

About 5 years ago, I had started working at a coffee shop. I worked with the same people every day and it wasn’t too bad. Working with the same people every day you start to get to know each other pretty well. I found out one of the guys I was working with was actually dating one of my good friends which was strange because he’s never been brought up in conversation before. Also, there was a pretty big age gap between them. I thought he may of been the store manager at first or even the owner. Nope just a middle aged man who decided he wanted to be a barista. Needless to say I bring up this person next time I see my friend. She says it’s kind of a lowkey thing but really likes him. No big deal but kinda strange to literally never mention his name once? We were very close but it didn’t really bother me that much. We’re all entitled to our privacy yanno? So as time goes by I notice that this guy is acting weirder and weirder at work. Disappearing, moody, and just straight up not acti...

Our IT department runs fake phishing tests every few months and I've developed a habit of reporting anything that looks remotely suspicious. Last week I got an email from some invitation website with the subject "You've been invited!" and a big button that said View Invitation. No names, no venue, no date. Just a generic message telling me to click a link to see the details. The sender was some random automated email address too. I assumed it was another IT test. Posted a screenshot in our team chat telling everyone to be careful. A couple of coworkers had received the same thing and agreed it looked suspicious, so we all reported it. Well, turns out it was an actual wedding invitation from a coworker in another department. He'd used an online invitation service that apparently puts all the wedding details on the page you open after clicking the link. I'd never heard him mention the wedding, so it didn't even cross my mind. IT ended up blocki...

There's this orange cat that started showing up outside my apartment a few weeks ago. No collar, always meowing at my door, and would absolutely destroy any food I gave him. Naturally I assumed he was a stray. Started leaving some food out for him every evening and eventually he got comfortable enough to come inside for a bit. Yesterday I mentioned him to a neighbor and she immediately knew whose cat it was. Apparently he belongs to a guy two floors above me. Went upstairs to let him know I'd been feeding his cat and the guy just stared at me. Turns out the cat has been on a strict diet for over a month because he's overweight. The owner had taken him back to the vet twice because somehow he was GAINING weight despite eating less at home. He even suspected someone in his family was sneaking the cat food. So yeah, apparently this cat figured out he could get dinner upstairs, walk down two floors, scream at my door and get another one. The owner wasn't parti...

So my apartment building sent out a notice asking residents to move their bikes out of the hallway because the floors were getting cleaned. I moved mine into the basement storage area late Friday night. Completely forgot about it. Sunday morning I walked downstairs, saw my usual spot empty and immediately assumed someone stole it. Instead of checking literally anywhere else, I posted in our building's WhatsApp group warning everyone about a possible bike thief. I was pretty pissed too, wrote this whole paragraph about how management needs to take security seriously. A few neighbors got involved, one offered to help and the building manager agreed to check the cameras. This morning I got called downstairs to look at the footage. There's a guy wearing a gray hoodie wheeling my bike toward the basement on Friday night. I watched for maybe 10 seconds before realizing that guy was me. Same hoodie, same stupid slippers I wear when taking the trash out. The manager j...

Ok so obligatory this didn't happen today but rather a few months ago. So I (F21) started a new job about 10 months ago and instantly clicked with one of my coworkers (M22). We talked all the time, texted after work, and I even hung out with him after work a couple times. He would host some get togethers at his place and once I went to a house party with him. We flirted everyday but nothing ever happened and the flirting never reached the point where we called each other attractive so I really thought that he might just be friendly. When we had hung out outside of work I had moved in closer to him and he moved away so I took that as a sign that he didn't like me. I am also technically above him but I don't have much authority so I didn't want to make things awkward or mess up a job that I really love. One day I mentioned I was going on a date with someone and my coworker (Ig we can just call him Bryan) started acting differently. There was a huge difference in our inter...

This happened a while ago, but looking back, I still find the whole situation ridiculous. I had failed my driving test several times because I get really nervous during exams. I was embarrassed about it, especially when people kept asking me if I had passed. Eventually, I got tired of explaining that I had failed again, so I decided to tell people I had passed. At first, it didn’t seem like a big deal. I thought nobody would really ask about it again. Well, I was wrong. One day, someone actually asked me to drive them somewhere. I immediately panicked because I obviously couldn’t drive them anywhere without exposing my lie. So I had to come up with an excuse on the spot. And that wasn’t even the only time. Every time someone mentioned driving, I had to think of another excuse. The funniest part is that I was spending more energy keeping up the lie than I probably would have spent just telling the truth. Thankfully, I eventually passed my driving test for real. But I still remem...