People are people and we make mistakes. Here's a dude who thought he was applying to a job in his own city, but low and behold, the listing was extremely easy to misread. For some more mix-ups, here's a guy who thought a date was a job interview and here's a woman who thought an office was a dog sitting company for months.
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This quick and informative Tumblr thread shares some strategies adopted by a wholesome mother for raising her kids with ADHD. Stepping outside to chop some wood does sound like a great way to blow off some steam, and recenter oneself if that brain starts racing around. If you're looking for more fun stuff from Tumblr, check out this gallery of Brits and Americans repeatedly clashing on Tumblr.
Whether it's getting to see a movie with swears, doing some super risky crap and almost getting hurt, or general moments of sworn secrecy, there are moments when a father is inclined to say " don't tell your mother." Almost everyone has a moment they can remember their dad letting them do something their mom wouldn't approve of and being like "alright be cool." To keep it going with the dad theme, here are some tweets and memes to keep dads going.
For all the creepy unsettling facts out there, it's goof to have a balance of nice facts to counteract all the messed up ones. For every fact about brain eating zombie fungi or how many missing nuclear bombs there are in the world, there's another fact about how cows have best friends and how much of a bro Jupiter is.
Via Borremose Man
Here's a guy recording himself saying inspirational messages that are actually legitimately good life advice. And then it's cut with a whole lot of wacky tongue sounds. We felt like we got something out of it.
@raycont let the world know about the wonderful feature of this place to stay. Nothing like a well behaved dog to stop by for treats. For more surprise animal twitter threads, here's one about an incorrigible cat that invaded a guy's home, as well as a lizard that created havoc in a garden.
Geese have a reputation for not being the most friendly of birds, but in this case, we witness a wholesome and wonderful friendship between man and goose. When he goes to leave and the goose tries to follow him, that really pulled on the heart strings.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the most impressively wholesome things that people have witnessed. These might temporarily restore your faith in humanity. At the very least, it's enough shining moments of humans being genuinely awesome that the good feels flow.
Ryan Kober's story about a visit to the doc's office with his grandpa and great uncle is just the kind of wholesome throwback we never grow tired of. The quick and hilarious account of what the two old dudes say and do while their hearing aids are being fixed up gave us a good chuckle. Hearing yourself using the bathroom is apparently an exciting thing when you haven't heard it in a while.
Give a sheepdog something to herd and by god it will herd that thing. In this case it was a little lawn care robot. That is a smart dog. Under the right circumstances, pets find ways to do creepily intelligent things. And there's something about roombas that make them seem more than just a mindless robot. For example, here Tumblr explores human nature with the concept of a "knife roomba."
Usually if you hear a retail story it's gonna be about how horribly entitled a customer is. However, this time it's about a customer who seriously needed help and found exactly the right person in a mechanic on a slow day. For more wholesome stories, here's one about a senior who mistook a guy's car for a taxi or this lazy genius school project story.
Ah, yes, the wonderful old "blursed image", where cursed meets blessed, and makes us feel uncomfortable while strangely comforted at the same time. You just have to see these blursed images to know what we're talking about.
Check out these weird cursed images to feel uncomfortable about.
Sometimes, we need a little wholesome to keep us moving through these strange times. This beautiful story centers on an old and cheery senior who mistook a man's car for a taxi. Fortunately, the man was open-minded to embracing the experience, and gave "Jerry" the ride he needed, free of charge. Lovely stuff.
Via John Kennedy
Witness the wonderfully wholesome moment that a baby discovers her first laugh. It's so sweet it hurts.
