Anyone who can speak a second language will tell you how beneficial it is to have that ability. While there are many ways one can take advantage of speaking another language, one benefit triumphs them all – being able to talk freely about whatever you want in public and having no one understand you. When I was 19, I got to spend a year abroad with 3 of my best friends. We all speak a fairly uncommon language other than English, so we'd use that language as our main source of communication among…

"I'd put up tow zone signs and put the tow truck driver on retainer."

When talking to new parents, one of the biggest changes they would mention about becoming a parent is how they are no longer only living for their own sake. Having a kid means that your existence and purpose in life do not revolve around you anymore, but it revolves around this completely separate human being. This creates a firm distinction between good and bad parents – Good parents see this change as beautiful and meaningful, and bad parents teach themselves to resent their kids for it. It s…

You do not want to mess with this dude's mother. Honestly, there are lessons we all can learn from her. Typically here at FAIL Blog, we tend to side with customer service representatives when it comes to the conflicts they have to endure and confront on the job. However, in this case, the Redditor's mother had been dealing with the aftereffects of a serious house fire and simply wanted to cancel the appliance service plan she was using as her home was now uninhabitable for the next several mont…

Figuring out logistics for the holiday season always requires making some tough decisions. However, if making these decisions puts a marriage in hot water, then there is a larger problem going on behind the scenes. Here, we have a 30-year-old husband who was hoping to split Christmas eve and Christmas day with his family as well as his wife's parents so both sets of grandparents could have some time with their three-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, his in-laws were possessive and could not fat…

"This was the last time she was parking in my driveway, period."

There's a price to relying on the kindness of strangers, especially if you're the kind stranger. After all, what would you do if your 55-year-old neighbor, who was recently evicted from her apartment by your landlord, knocked on your door one night with no place to stay? Would you not succumb to your decent impulses and let her crash on your couch, even if it's just for one night? Unfortunately, in this instance, it was far from just one night. This lady hadn't had another place lined up despit…

Who knew that the tradition of hanging Christmas lights and decorating the exterior of your home would cause so much neighborhood drama? As someone who grew up in an apartment within a metropolitan area, this suburban madness is not something I inherently understood until I spent time in the suburbs as an adult. Let's just say it was a culture shock. Sign culture, flag culture, and Christmas lights culture are phenomena that are deeply strange and new to me, yet clearly, they can be the source…

"Please know that your employer will always value their bottom line over your dignity. I loved this job. I am so so sad."

In the same way that dogs can sense an impending earthquake, this retail worker intuitively knew they were in for a wave of confused customers. You can tell this person, u/SushiThief, has been working in retail for a while. They write that while working at a toy store, they discovered that a major video game console was going on sale. It wasn't any regular sale. No, this time, the console was so cheap that it seemed too good to be true. And sure enough, too good to be true is exactly the lie th…

"Wow, that is Olympic gold level petty revenge."

Imagine taking your girlfriend of six years on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Hawaii to finally propose, only to discover that this was not meeting her expectations. Such is the unfortunate reality of our time on the internet, where over-the-top marriage proposals are frequent TikTok and Instagram trends. Apparently, a nighttime proposal on the beach in an idyllic dream vacation spot was not perfect enough for this entitled 21-year-old. As many folks in the comments section of this Reddit thread…

"My parents tore into me about how I was ‘only going to community college,’ and how I ‘didn’t go to high school anyway.’"

Most folks cannot fathom having the audacity to make a scene at a coffee shop, and yet, there are clearly enough people in this life who continue to make scenes any chance they can. Does this stem from a bitterness toward the world? Does it stem from a warped sense of entitlement? Are these folks capable of stepping out of their own experiences to realize the world does not revolve around them? The short answer to that last one is… unlikely. Here, we have an entitled Karen who put in an overly…

Catching a thieving neighbor is not as easy as it looks. First of all, without evidence, it's kind of an audacious assumption to be made. It's certainly not the kind of thing you can accuse someone of face-to-face unless you have concrete proof. In this instance, the only concrete evidence this Redditor had was that her neighbor was a miserable human being. That's certainly enough to suspect, but it's not enough to prove. For a little backstory, the Redditor started to create distance between h…

Nothing is better than seeing a Karen face the consequences of her actions.