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‘I accidentally Grinched my way up the corporate ladder': Employee tells his boss’s kid that Santa isn’t real, earns him the ‘weirdest’ promotion of his life

Elna McHilderson

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17-year-old sets her mother and her mother's husband straight when they get upset at her for telling others that he isn't her dad: 'My mom's husband isn't my dad'

Brad Dickson

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Guy refuses to help clean apartment, roommate does all the cleaning alone under the promise that she will receive the full security deposit, guy keeps the money anyway: 'Landlord sent me a check for the return of the security deposit, which was $750'

Brad Dickson

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Father refuses to offer financial support or inheritance to his illegitimate love child, his brother steps in to ensure the child is cared for: 'I have been personally sending money; I'll never let him hear the end of it'

Brad Dickson

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‘I feel bad for her children, but honestly, girl, how entitled do you have to be?’: Woman gets banned from the children’s museum after she opens the toddler area gate and unleashes a mass escape and leaving parents to scoop up runaway kids

Etai Eshet

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Swedish tourist demands a wildlife park tour discount based on a six-year-old blog post, and tries to pay with Swedish currency on a trip to Finland, gets denied by a Finnish clerk: ‘The manager and owner both laughed so hard ‘

Etai Eshet

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'Get over it': Mother of 3-under-3 gets lectured by a childfree neighbor about her screaming babies, gets told she needs to move to another apartment; sparks debate

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Stop calling me 'mom' in the office': Coworker's lets his 6-year-old daughter bombard his colleague with affection in the workplace, so she takes parenting lessons into her own hands to set boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

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High school chemistry teacher tells a 16-year-old boy and his mother that he's ‘not smart,’ he gets satisfying revenge 14 years later when he bumps into her after graduating with his doctorate: ‘As fate would have it…’

Elna McHilderson

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Stepmother demands that 16-year-old stepson stay to care for her children even after she and his father are separated: 'She tried to say she had raised me for 9 years and should be allowed to keep me in her and my half-siblings' lives even if dad isn't'

Brad Dickson

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‘Reasonable’ dad throws reason out the window when entitled guy starts yelling at his kids for playing ball, ends up getting the guy fined and removed: ‘Knowing where this was going, I smiled…’

Elna McHilderson

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'Starting to mess with my kids is another level I just can't tolerate': Neighbor leaves car parked far into neighborhood sidewalk so children are unable to ride their bikes safely away from the street

Lana DeGaetano

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30-year-old gets petty revenge on 33-year-old sister-in-law: 'Mom says you're 30 now and that's OLD!'

Remy Millisky

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‘I’d appreciate some competent parenting:' Neighboring kids keep tossing toys into next door year and parents do not care, neighbor teaches them a lesson

Elna McHilderson

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Daughter leaves her own graduation dinner after her father unexpectedly brings his new wife, Kim, despite her specifically requesting a dinner with just her separated parents and brother: ' I feel like he made it about proving a point'

Emma Saven

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Stepmother gets shut down by 17-year-old stepdaughter after forcing her to go to family therapy to get the teen to admit that she is an adequate replacement for her mother: 'She was never second best [...] because she was never in the running'

Brad Dickson

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