Accidental Innuendo: The speaker's boyfriend expresses his frustration at being unable to find clothes his size. with "Damn, I got all excited and was let down!" His girlfriend replies, "Now you know how I feel all the time!" invoked
This wife comes home late and decides to sleep in the guest room instead of going into the bedroom and run the risk of disturbing her PTSD-suffering husband, who has a loaded gun on the nightstand. When she explains to her husband the next morning, he agrees that it was a good decision to make. Commenters are appalled, especially with both partners almost off-handedly agreeing that him shooting her is a very real possibility that they just have to live with, and that this story is horrifying, even by Not Always Romantic standards.
These two girls have a drink at a bar while several Navy personnel are on shore leave before deploying. One sailor starts chatting up the submitter, only to immediately go for her hotter friend once said friend starts talking to him, who then dumps him as they both leave and make fun of him. Ostensibly, it's supposed to paint the sailor as a creep who will freely dump a girl for someone slightly hotter, except that the submitter and her friend know he's only looking for a casual fling from the start, and the submitter outright states she's perfectly willing to accommodate him, before going on to not do so at all. This and many other specifics of the story - since the story is almost entirely narration, we only have the submitter's word that she was "clearly" receptive before her friend stole the sailor away, while said friend actually was more clearly open to his advances; the fact that the submitter's friend apparently steals away and then dumps every guy who ever talks to the submitter, who doesn't have any problem with this (and in fact treats the sailor, if not every other guy who gets roped into this sort of situation, like he's the idiot for looking at someone more obviously receptive to what he wants); and the fact that they're doing this to a US Navy sailor, who will not get another chance at intimate contact with a lady for an extended length of time while he's out to sail, which simply isn't cool - have almost all of the commenters, if not on the sailor's side, at least agreeing the submitter is as much of a tease as her friend but won't own up to it.
Comment: It's not often for me to think the man just wanting to get laid is the most virtuous and honest person in an interaction, but here we are.
Most of the commenters feel that this submitter is a selfish jerk for constantly stealing her boyfriend's warmer garments when she's cold, going so far as to take both sweatshirts when he makes a point of bringing two so they can each have one. She justifies it in the story by saying that "As everyone knows, when a man brings a sweatshirt to an outdoor event, it becomes the property of his girlfriend." The fact that the girlfriend describes her boyfriend as "resigned" doesn't help matters.
The submitter of this story works in a pub, and witnesses the messy breakup between two married patrons; in the story's last line, the submitter complains said patrons left a low tip, "definitely not enough for someone who just waited on their very public and messy divorce". Commenters were appalled, pointing out the selfishness of wanting a high tip from people who are obviously distraught from their current situation (the couple forgot to pay when leaving until the submitter reminded them).
Comment: Really? You see a relationship implode right in front of you, and all you care about is your tip? What is wrong with you, OP? Another comment: Two people are going through likely the worst day of their lives. Even so have the common decency to tip you, but you're complaining they didn't leave a bigger tip?
Several stories include the couple in question just getting intimate or having just finished, with many commenters wondering why they would add this detail to something submitted to the internet.
This woman still snaps at her husband for an affair he had 8 years ago. The comments are separated into asking why the wife is still married to him, if she obviously hasn't forgiven him for his unfaithfulness, and asking why the husband hasn't divorced her yet for the same reason. On the other hand, some have commented that it's possible that she has forgiven him, and the references to the affair now are good-natured ribbing.
This woman is dating a man that seems to not understand that she cannot open the car where she locked her keys inside because the windows are rolled up. He keeps insisting that she just needs to reach through the open window and unlock the door that way, despite being told repeatedly that the windows are closed. Even when she asks him to show her how to open the car door without the spare key as a helpful tool and he cannot do it, he still doesn't understand the issue. The submitter says that this topic is still discussed years later, and that she has gone on to get engaged to him as 'he is a good man. He just happens to be an idiot.' Many comments mention how frustrating this situation was and question why one would stay with someone this dense.
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