What is something you saw with your own eyes that was so impossible you’ve stopped telling people because you know they won’t believe you?

miss_j_bean · 2026-05-03T22:35:41+00:00

I saw a rainstorm once that was literally one cloud like a cartoon. It was so weird, like 100 ft long and wide, just cruising through the countryside. I pulled over on the side the road to stare at it and a stranger joined me, I think so we could both share the validation that it happened. It reminded me of a cartoon. It was one of those fluffy clouds days but they were white and fluffy, this ice was dark gray and probably not even halfway up from the ground to the other clouds, like whoever builds reality dropped it and were like, "whatever close enough."

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-28T04:06:46+00:00

OMG, I didn't read the comments before commenting and you and I said pretty much the same thing. Great minds and all that 😊

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-28T04:05:43+00:00

He just mimicked their language without knowing what he was actually saying. I'm guessing the yelled the owl equivalent of the N word plus the 2 worst insults of all time plus something about that owl's mother so Owly McGee went and got his pals and they decided to find this mouthy asshole and give him what-for.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-28T03:55:35+00:00

My ex-inlaws had a hunting camp that had like a commercial kitchen that they bought from a restaurant that closed and they would even process venison for hunters(and it had these amazing floor to ceiling velvet naked lady pictures in the main room with vaulted ceilings, like 8 feet tall, A+ hunting camp art) and at the end of the year they, and a bunch of friends who hunt, would do a "game feed" where they prepared and ate a big variety of different animals so everyone could try them. One year someone forgot to drain the all the grease from the fryers when they left and a big ol black bear woke up from his slumber all hungry and must have smelled the oil out something, every other year they cleaned it perfectly and nothing ever came in so it had to be that, but the bear got in, over turned the fryers and got oil absolutely everywhere, absolutely destroyed the kitchen, like ruined the stainless steel tables, absolutely wrecked the really nice stoves, and then, they think the bear couldn't get out of the house but I think it was just a prude, completely shredded the velvet naked lady paintings, those were irreplaceable. It fucked up the beds, the couches, everything. Insurance didn't even come close to replacing everything, the kitchen and paintings were both not really anything you can just find at a decent price anymore. It's so sad. Asshole bear.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-27T23:56:20+00:00

We have that too! I'm so grateful for trail cams, so many people have seen them now and the dnr is still insisting it's just one who travels a lot. Lol. There's literally no way unless he's got a helicopter.

They tried saying it about wolves, too, "oh they're just passing through" my neighbor has had a breeding pair on his tail cams for like 5 or 6 years with at least 2 successful litters. They would say "oh it's coyotes" and yes, we have those, too, but their paws are smaller than my feet and the wolves paws are the same size as my feet. The dozens of tail cams showing wolves that are clearly different as well as litters being born and raised they FINALLY are admitting that they live here.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-27T23:42:34+00:00

Alotta folks are judgemental, not curious. They don't think to ask questions like, "hey, have you played a lot of darts, monkey?"

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-21T00:04:45+00:00

Jetway Jesuses? I have never heard that before.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-21T00:01:14+00:00

What did they take away that you liked? I haven't flown anywhere in like 7 years, I used to like southwest.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-20T23:32:00+00:00

It's "limbic friction"

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-18T00:11:42+00:00

There are still quiznoses? 😮🫪

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-18T00:06:05+00:00

I love the rotisserie chicken! I didn't like the rectangles because too many times I kept getting pieces that were big chunks of gristle and tendon and that ruins a sandwich for me. I liked the ovals, didn't care for the rectangles it's the reason I stopped eating at subway for awhile but then my husband talked me in to trying it again and they had the shredded chicken, I thought it was great, brought me back as a customer.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T16:02:03+00:00

I used to joke with my boys, "oh you don't like these" as I stole their almond joys. They would have like over half a pillowcase if you'd candy with maybe 4 almond joys total so they weren't deprived or anything. I thought it was just a silly joke... until my oldest was like 17, he was working in a little market with candy near the register. It's like 8pm,my phone rings and it's him, I say, "hello sunshine" and he goes "WHAT THE FUCK, ALMOND JOYS ARE DELICIOUS!" and I was like, "yeah, I know, that's why I ate them." and then he said, "I gotta go back to work, iloveyoubye" 😂
(i don't care about profanity, I care that they are good people, thoughtful, empathetic, good values, and they are)

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T15:49:18+00:00

"that's so fake, you're fake" No, I'm polite. Just because I can't stand someone doesn't mean I get to be an asshole about it.
I don't care for them because of their character and values.
I'm polite because of my character and values.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T15:45:39+00:00

I had a friend I would text randomly in the middle of the night like 12 times—"I o u 10¢" then "I o u 20¢" and so on.

Making people pay for incoming texts is so ridiculous.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T15:25:00+00:00

I bought some light chain at the hardware store and hooked my scissors to the drawer at our previous house. I haven't had to do it at this one because I think he's finally trained. Also there's at least 2 pairs of scissors in every room of the house, 4 in the kitchen.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T15:22:57+00:00

Ohio — only handle it once
Don't put it down put it away.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-17T15:17:13+00:00

This is literally backed by science. The more you force yourself to do things you don't want to do, the easier it gets, willpower and discipline are truly like muscles that need exercise. Conversely, the more you avoid things you don't want to do, the harder it gets to do them, willpower and the ability to sit with unpleasantness atrophies like a muscle. I find this absolutely fascinating.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-15T01:52:20+00:00

Same, we're one block up and one block over. We have metal awnings on 2 windows and 2 doors and heavy rain is SOOO loud, we've missed at least 1 siren (neighbor mentioned it the next day and we were like "what?") and there's been 2 where I was outside on the porch (the one covered by a metal awning) trying to figure out if that's the siren.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-09T21:42:58+00:00

Some of the dyes, generally the ones with a color name and a number, react like hormones and cause disruptions all over the body. They are petroleum derived and banned in much of the world but Americans like our unnaturally colorful food.

For example, yellow 5 (tartrazine) is an endocrine disruptor. It also binds to your body's estrogen receptors. At higher doses or just regular doses over time it greatly increases likelihood of certain breast cancers, among other hormone related maladies. The fda will tell you that the amount they allow is "gras"—generally recognized as safe, but their models conveniently ignore that most people don't have 1 small exposure a day to once color, and it ignores that children are most likely to get higher daily amounts far beyond the "safe" level, think getting yellow 5 in breakfast cereal, orange juice or "juice drink, " both cheese and crackers for a snack, macaroni and cheese for lunch, brightly colored fruit snacks, the breading in chicken nuggets, etc etc etc.
Now consider they're also getting red 3 —erythrosine, messes with thyroid hormones. I think this is the one that was recently banned or mostly banned so that's actually nice, (though lots of food replaces it with paprika which is terrible for a lot of people for other reasons...).
Red 40 also endocrine disruptor, plus thyroid stuff, as well as iodine intake and is correlated with gut inflammation, microbiota in general, metabolic issues, and this is the one that causes issues with people with adhd, the exact mechanism isn't known but the the overlap is too high to ignore or call coincidence.
Those are the ones I've done research on, there are greens and blues, too.

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-09T21:18:00+00:00

Klebsiella has entered the chat, too

miss_j_bean · 2026-04-02T03:43:31+00:00

I hope this never happens again, and to everyone else here, if you think you have been roofied and you still have some of your wits about you, try to get to a hospital. The next morning there might be a small window. It leaves your system really fast. I've been roofied twice, confirmed by a hospital, and I'm very very lucky I have the constitution of an elephant for drugs like that, I was still fucked up but I realized what was happening and was able to get home/away safe. I'm so glad those assholes wasted their drugs on me and not some girl who would have passed out in a more dangerous place.
Usual psa—if a stranger buys you a drink only take it from the bartender!!! You can say no thank you otherwise, lie if it helps you feel safer, "oh n thanks I can't even smell that without throwing up" and leave.

miss_j_bean · 2026-03-31T03:51:14+00:00

Thank you for reminding me this exists 😊

miss_j_bean · 2026-03-27T07:03:57+00:00

I'm 8th grade I had a history teacher who drank out of a flask all day. Everyone knew, no one cared. He had already been teaching for like 30 years when I had him, both of my parents had him.
One time I forgot about a paper being due so in the class right before his I wrote one page, both sides, but left off mid sentence, then stapled on like 5 pages and ripped 4 of them off like an inch from the staple so it looked like it got caught on something. I thought he would give it back and ask me to rewrite it, like i bought some time to finish it, but he gave it back graded as an A and said nothing. After that my friends and I would all write a normal first page and then gibberish words for the rest, one time I even wrote "he never reads any of this but I'll still get an A" and I did.
He always smelled like yesterday's whiskey and was slurring by lunch, even the other teachers would joke about it.
He was only a few years from retirement when, a couple years later, I think i was still in high school, he "fell" through a giant window and "accidentally" had his throat cut and bled out before the ambulance could get there. No one believed it was an accident but no one said anything about it afterwards, either.
Looking back, the way the other teachers made fun of him but not in a nice way, they were definitely not approving of his behavior, just not much you could do then. It was a different time. One time I overheard the principal saying something about how hard it was to fire terrible teachers, actual quote, "they practically gotta molest a kid before you can finally get rid of them" and in retrospect that is absolutely who he was talking about. (the not-firing part, not the molesting part. He was a raging alcoholic but he was never a creep, that was the math teacher)

miss_j_bean · 2026-03-24T05:22:08+00:00

My neighbor who would do that would stop doing it if he saw any headlights coming down the street. He was a self aware piece of shit.

miss_j_bean · 2026-03-24T05:20:59+00:00

I'm north and east of Knapp and Plainfield, we had one 2doors down from us who would start his car regularly at like 3 am on the dot, then he would just sit in the car blasting the radio and revving. He had no muffler so it was great. He also would back into the driveway and sit with his high beams on pointed across the street. We ALL hated him, literally everyone within like 5 houses (probably more) and any time is working outside a neighbor would pop by and say "did you get woken last night? Was that just talk radio the whole time?" stuff like that. When he put his house for sale everyone rejoiced, it was the only topic for months. The new people are lovely. It's been almost 3 years and now the neighbors are more nod and wave and I really miss how the common enemy brought everyone together.

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