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- The girl in this story
. But hey... free food! - It's bad enough for a person to suffer tumors and look extremely thin as a result. It's even worse when someone else assumes they're thin for purely selfish reasons, goes off of that assumption, and makes the person's life even worse because they refuse to hear anything but their own humongously erroneous illusion.
- Arguably, what makes that worse is that even if those were the reasons the woman was so thin (basically, the waitress accuses her of being bulimic and having cut herself), it still would in no way justify that treatment. Either way, the woman would've technically been ill and nobody chooses to have an illness.
- It really sucks when a person's medical aspirations are crushed because of a jerk physician.
- It's sad when you are waiting at the checkout line after a friend's funeral and the cashier gets mad at you for looking sad and assumes that you are just moping around for no reason.
- A shy teenage customer is driven to tears when she nearly gets her Security Blanket stuffed animal taken away by a toy shop employee, who is convinced she's trying to steal it (despite the fact that the store doesn't carry any used merchandise and therefore wouldn't be selling what is clearly an old, worn toy). Thankfully, another employee steps in and, after distracting the first employee and listening to the submitter's side of the story, comforts her and rushes her out before she can be berated any more.
- This man became homeless because his now ex-wife slept with his ex-boss and the boss had him fired when he found out. That's a special kind of bad luck. And presumably neither the boss nor the wife have been brought to justice. Luckily, the story has a happy ending — once the submitter hears the homeless man's story, he hires the man as a live-in janitor right then and there.
- Though it concerns mean customers (on Not Always Working because the story is about the employee's reaction), in a way, this girl's utter astonishment and despair that people can be so horrible is pretty damn heartwrenching:"You mean...you guys get yelled at all the time?! For things...that aren't your fault?! What is this?!"
- When she puts it like that, it reminds you just how thoroughly awful and ridiculous that kind of behavior is, and how truly sad it is that in this society it's basically considered inevitable. The girl has a point. Read the Not Always Working and Not Always Right examples of people being completely disgusting to each other, and ask yourself: What is this?
- Not to mention, the poor girl was practically hysterical, and so upset that she threw up; and not long after she resigned.
- While the submitter in this story (which took place when she was six months old) survives despite the doctor's Skewed Priorities, she notes that five other babies had the same unexplained fever... and none of them survived.
- This daycare worker tells a five-year-old girl that Santa doesn't exist, prompting the girl's mother to angrily confront the worker. When the worker tries to defend her statement by saying that Christmas is a commercial holiday, the mother reveals that her husband died on Christmas Day the previous year, and that a visit from Santa was the one thing keeping the poor kid's spirits up that Christmas. The mother's last words to the worker (who was fired because several other parents, outraged at the worker's actions, withdrew their children's enrollment at the daycare) basically sum up the trauma her daughter had to go through.Mother: So, thank you. Thank you for ruining Christmas. The first two Christmases my daughter is going to remember: seeing her father collapse on a dollhouse they were building together, and learning that Santa doesn’t exist from a virtual stranger. Thank you, you self-righteous b***!
- This poor kid's fundamentalist Christian parents have basically brainwashed him into seeing basic literacy and intellectual curiosity as Satanic, "educating" him and his siblings merely by forcing them to memorise Bible passages by heart. The result? He got his girlfriend pregnant out of wedlock, likely because he doesn't have any concept of safe sex; he's unemployable because he can't read or write; and because he's unemployable, he ended up incarcerated for burglary. In short, he's incapable of functioning in the real world because his parents chose to indoctrinate him.
- This awful story. While it's not the focal point of the story in question, the ending reveals that the submitter's father not only ran out on his family with someone else, but he did so by faking his suicide and making his wife and kids believe him to be dead for four years until they learn the awful truth that he tricked them into believing he was dead so he could abandon them for someone else. Just imagine how devastated, angry, and hurt they must have been once the ruse had been uncovered. In the story proper, the submitter is having a tattoo on her arm erased - the name of her Not Quite Dead father which she had gotten on her arm in memory of him after his supposed death. Even the Jerkass tattoo artist the submitter goes to (who had assumed the tattooed name was of the submitter's ex-boyfriend/husband and wouldn't let the submitter get a word in) is mortified and immediately tries to apologize once the submitter finally explains why she was getting rid of the tattoo.
