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A Wild Geologist Appears!

Outdoors | WV, USA(My father and two of my uncles were taking a walk along a strip mine when they began to hear a strange tapping noise.) Uncle: *whispering* “What’s that?” Dad: “Sounds like the...

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Woke Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bed

Home | Australia(My uncle turns up at Mum’s place early one morning. He starts accusing Mum of leaving my Grandmother at home alone. My parents have been looking after her for 30 years with absolutely...

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Sink Or Swim Or Drive

Home | Elizabethtown, KY, USA(This exchange occurs a couple months after a massive sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.) Great Uncle: “Yeah, I went out to check the...

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Beauty Is In The Colorful Eyes Of The Beholder

Home | Singapore(My young brother gets more than his fair share of teasing from my youngest aunt, who loves teasing small kids. My brother is drawing and colouring in a picture. As with all young kids,...

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Realizing They Were Making Boobs Of Themselves

Home | NH, USA(My cousin and I are more like sisters and we have a weird relationship where we converse with a lot of grunting sounds and physical contacts instead of words. We’ve just had a screaming...

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Hasn’t Had His Fill Yet

Home | PA, USA(It’s Thanksgiving and my family is eating dinner. My grandfather is getting irate because everyone’s eating all the filling, which is like stuffing but made with potatoes, because he...

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The Future Of Back To The Future

Home | Ireland(I’m at my fiancé’s grandfather’s house, along with my fiancé and his aunt.) Aunt: “Well, let’s hope 2015 goes even better than 2014!” Me: *joking* “We’ll have hoverboards anyway.” Aunt:...

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She Really Needs To Change Her Tune

Home | MO, USA(My grandpa, two aunts, and three cousins are over at my dad’s apartment after my cousins’ swimming lessons. My cousins, our aunt, my dad, and I are in the kitchen while the boys eat....

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Girls Love Biker Boys

Restaurant | Tel-Aviv, Israel(My little cousin has ADHD and loves to ride his bike. We are currently talking about marriages.) My Dad: “So are you going to be like [Cousin #2] and have lots of...

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The Sky Is The Zip Code Limit

Restaurant | NJ, USA(It’s a slow day. I only have two or three tables filled at the time, one of which is a mother with two young daughters, the oldest looking no more than five, and young lady who,...

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Burst Your Scantron Bubble

Home | Winston-Salem, NC, USA(It’s my senior year of high school, and finals month. I’m at my aunt’s house, having dinner.) Aunt: “So, what did you learn in school today?” Me: “Ugh. That three hundred...

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How Waffle!

Home | TN, USA(I am four years old and have spent the night at my aunt’s house.) Aunt: “What would you like for breakfast, [My Name]?” Me: “I want waffles.” (My aunt takes a waffle iron and some...

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A Barking Mad Excuse

Home | England, UK(My auntie is an author and often gets phone calls from publishers about her work. I’m staying with her for a week. They have a dog, who has just had a rather large poop in the back...

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Waking Up Is A Scream

Home | USA(My uncle fell asleep on the couch.) Uncle: *screams at the top of his lungs and then wakes up* “Oh, my god, did you hear that?!” Aunt: “Yeah! That was you!”

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Sick Of Laughing

Home | Canada(My dad and aunt are siblings and often joke around. I have also inherited a disease from my aunt.) Aunt: “Don’t worry; you inherited it from me. It’s better than inheriting the crazy from...

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Meet Aunt Hypocrisy

Home | Carmel, IN, USA(When I was little I got a ‘magic book’ from a toy catalog full of fun stories, trivia, and arts and crafts projects. Though there were no spells I became thoroughly obsessed with...

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A Very Unhappy Meal

Fast Food, Restaurant | Buffalo, NY, USA(Despite most of my family being Catholic, a combination of atheism on my dad’s side, and agnosticism/laziness on my mother’s side, make it so that I grow up...

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Making Peas With The Issue

Home | Green Bay, WI, USA(My young daughter hates peas and refuses to eat them. Because she eats other vegetables her father and I have decided not push the issue. This happens at a dinner with my...

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Sleeping On The Job

Home | Singapore(My uncle loves sleeping and sleeps as much as he can. This happens when his kids are very young and his wife leaves the kids at home with him while she goes to the market in the...

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Meet Aunty Condescending

Home | MI, USA(My fiancé and I are about a month away from our wedding day. Being a bit nontraditional and nerdy, the plan is for the reception to be a costume party, and to have board/card games for...

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