There are people who are light and can be considered as people persons. Someone who is very approachable and very easy to get along with. It will end up with everyone loving that person.
However, there is no such thing as a perfectly good one. Sometimes, there is a gut feeling that we sense a rotting inside of a person. Surely, you encounter some people with strong guts just like these people!
1. This Is My Work
Interviewing a guy for a job. Something didn't feel right, but my interviewing partner really seemed to like him. We get to his portfolio of work, and I see the side project I worked on alone as one of his websites.
So I start asking him questions about it. What challenges did he have, and how was the client? I let him go on and on, and then I said, "I have to level with you. This is my work. You are showing me my own work. Look at the source near the footer. It has my website in the comments.
He went ghost white, and I just sat there. After that, I coached him a little on how not to suck, and he left. We called the contract agency that sent him and let them know.
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2. Immediate No
My older mother got this "boyfriend." Mom was in her 60s, and the boyfriend was probably in her mid-sixties. One day, she brought him over to my house, where I was a single mom to a 3-year-old boy.
I'm usually friendly or at the least polite, but I looked at that guy and said, "No, don't come into my house." My mom was SHOCKED.
She said, "Wang_Dipthong, this is Blah Blah, my boyfriend!" I told her I was sorry. I shut the door. About six months later, he went to jail for some horrendous crime.
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3. Sketchy Husband
My sister's first husband. I was 5 when they got married, and I only met him a few times in person because they lived on the other side of the country. My family really loved him--he was charming, athletic, smart, handsome, financially secure, and seemed like a great dad when they had kids.
Plus, he was never anything but nice to me. But I always sensed something shady about him. In 5th grade, I remember getting in huge trouble for a class assignment—an essay describing our families.
I described him as a bad person--pretty much word for word, "There's something I just don't like about him." It was one of the only times I got spanked as a child.
Well, fast forward a couple of years, and my parents discovered that he'd been berating my sister and the kids almost the whole time. They ended up divorcing, and he has proven to be a complete sociopath ever since.
He hadn't paid a dime in child support despite being well off enough to buy a new luxury sports car every few years and uses their two kids to play mind games with my sister.
Bringing her to court for full custody, knowing he won't win due to his past, just to cause her inconvenience and rack up legal fees for her, just as an example.
He also has refused to let the kids fly out to visit our side of the family a few times for no reason whatsoever. Somehow, I, a 10-year-old, was able to sense it before anyone else in my family.
kittyface93
4. Eyes Don’t Lie
So my husband has this cousin, Jason. And he loathes him. Always has since he was a small child. There are stories about my husband trying to beat Jason's ass when they were five.
It was so bad that, as an adult, my husband refused to attend any family gatherings that Jason would be at out of fear that he would beat the living crap out of him.
Nobody could ever figure out why my husband hated his cousin so much. He had never done anything to him. My husband is the most laid-back and friendly person I have ever met. He genuinely likes everyone except for this guy.
I never understood it myself, never having met Jason, and anytime I would ask my husband about it, he would always say, "I hate that kid. He's not right." Jason was pretty well-liked throughout the family, so my husband's position caused him to catch a lot of shit from other family members.
I finally got to meet Jason a few years ago at my brother-in-law's wedding. And I saw right off what my husband was talking about.
To the casual observer, there was nothing tangible that Jason DID that you could put your finger on. But something was off. He would laugh and smile, but the smile didn't go all the way to his eyes.
His eyes were flat and empty unless he looked at the girls at the wedding. When he looked at those girls, his eyes lit up with this sick little light.
Do you know how someone who hasn't eaten in a long time looks when they finally get a meal they love set in front of them? That's how Jason's eyes looked when he looked at those little girls as if he was hungry and they were his meal. We were right; he was arrested two years ago, and you guess why.
JustCallMeFox
5. For The Show
When I played high school football, we had an equipment manager who had been doing the job for decades and was absolutely adored by the community. The guy was in his 70s-80s.
One day, I'm ready for a game early, so I head out to the bus that's taking us. I see him loading stuff up, so I offer to help him load a few things.
Once we're all loaded on the bus, he walks to me in the back (cuz I was a cool kid) and hands me a cupcake in front of everyone as a thank you.
He handed me the cupcake and looked me in the eye, and this sense of dread just fell on me. I have no idea why, and everyone's looking at me, so I act normally.
I eat the cupcake (because I was, and still am, fat arse and will eat any cupcake you hand me) and just kinda write off the feeling. During the summer, he was arrested for a very serious crime.
ThatGuyWhoEngineers
6. More Than What You Think
About 15 years ago, I worked in a small office with mostly men, all of whom I liked. One day, a new guy started, and I instantly felt bad about him.
I don't know exactly why I felt that way, and all the other people seemed fine with him, so I did my best to be polite and find things to talk to him about.
I was in my mid-30s, he was about the same or a little older, and we both had young sons, so I was able to find some common ground.
Apparently, he and his wife didn't live together. She might have been back in his home country. But I could never shake that bad feeling.
A year or so later, I left the company to have my second son, and a friend who had taken my place there called me one morning and said, "Did you read the paper today??"
That man had been arrested in another state, apparently having been set up by an FBI sting online, where he had been chatting with who he thought was a young girl and was meeting up with "her." In the trunk of his car, they found a video camera and rope.
Daisy_W
7. Weirdest Teacher
My high school-age group Sunday school teacher gave me some really weird vibes. He was also a church elder, on the town council, and a bigwig at some computer tech company, and so on.
I was never really comfortable being alone with him. His wife seemed to be crawling out of her own skin when she was around him. He was always bossing her around and telling her to shut up in front of people.
Fast forward many years later, he was arrested and convicted of very serious crimes involving a lot of people. I can say I dodged a bullet myself.
LionAround2012
8. The Traitor
I suppressed it so quickly and fast because I felt like it was horribly ungracious since she was being so friendly. Over the next couple of years, she became my closest friend in the new town I had moved to.
Then, in the following couple of years, it vacillated between being close but just feeling like she really didn't want me around or was messing with me a little bit.
It turns out she was having an affair with my husband and was literally intentionally driving me crazy. Like, seriously, I trusted that woman.
AllysWorld
9. The Playgirl
Luckily, my bf and I cut ties with her before it worsened. She was one of my coworkers during my high school job, and we were really close. She was a little off-putting because she was one of those girls always surrounded by drama.
I knew it would be trouble, but I never had drama, so I was drawn to it. Anyway, I met my current bf through her about a year after I met her. She is best friends with his ex, who cheated on him (it was another flag, really, but we ignored it).
My boyfriend had shown interest in her, but she always turned him down. She did this with every guy that was interested in her. She would always act like she wanted to date them and then turn them down when they asked.
She would do it multiple times to the same guy, too. So my boyfriend gives up on her because he's tired of being tossed around. He's known me for a couple of weeks now, and we talk daily, so he asks me if I want to go out.
I didn't want to upset my friend too much, so I asked her if that would be a problem because I knew she was interested in him, too, and she said she was okay with it.
I say yes, and not even ten minutes later, she texts him, going freaking ballistic, telling him he's a jerk and a player and how he could do this.
She hasn't talked to him for six months, but I still talk to her. Eventually, she wants to be friends with him again, and I, being naive, think this is great because I can finally hang out with my bf and my friend again. Wrong.
She never wants me around when she's with him. She would invite him to things but not me. I told my bf, and he tried to minimize their time together and asked me to stuff with them. I leave for school a few months later, and it just worsens.
She stops talking to me but texts and calls him all the time. He has always had a lot of platonic girlfriends, so he doesn't think much of it. A year after we started dating, we nearly broke up because we were fighting so much, but we couldn't figure out why.
Eventually, we figure out that we fight every time she comes up in conversation. We both realize she's been really toxic to our relationship, and we should have cut her out long ago. So we do that, and neither of us talks to her anymore.
She once texted us both about eight months later. We both responded to her texts, but she only tried to keep up a conversation with my boyfriend, who confirmed it for us.
themagicmunchkin
10. Bad Vibe Co-worker
It was a coworker of mine, calling her "M." M was friendly, and everyone liked her. However, something was up with her, and I had a bad vibe.
She always complained about money issues but then would go out for meals or come into work with new clothes that did not indicate someone with severe money problems.
She allegedly complained of such severe financial problems that she was telling people she was having trouble putting food on the table for her kids. It was that level of desperation. Everyone really liked her, but I didn't. I had a really odd feeling about her like she was constantly deceptive.
People would always help her by giving her gift cards, extra clothes, or canned food. She also complained of car issues for several months.
This wonderfully kind lady at work—"C"—let M borrow her car during the workday so that M could use whatever money she said she had to go to the store and buy food for her family. Additionally, she used C's car to take a nap from time to time.
She claimed to work another evening job, and she was often very tired. Every year, our company sponsored a local family that needed a lot of help.
At the time, we were a small business (<50 employees), and we'd all donate something to the family at Christmas. It was usually toys, clothes, gift cards, and so forth.
This year, we decided as a group, to my silent opposition, that M would be our "family" this particular year. We amassed nearly $1,100 worth of food, toys, and clothes and presented it to M before Christmas that year. She cried and said thank you.
Three months later, C's car was stolen from the employee parking lot. Coincidentally, M didn't report back to work that day after lunch.
Long story short, M had made a copy of C's car key at some point, stole the car, and drove out of state with the intent to flee and not return.
We learned that M had a long history of criminal charges. M was eventually arrested in a traffic stop after C reported the car stolen.
As it turned out, M was a financial criminal specializing in identity theft. She had swindled many people and had a lengthy criminal history, including multiple felonies.
Right from the beginning, I knew something I didn't like was up with her, but I couldn't put a real finger on it. I don't know why I saw it; no one else did.
I began to question my morals, asking myself, "Why do I dislike M when everyone else does not?" I wrestled with it personally for some time but weirdly felt vindicated when the truth revealed itself.
TheySayImZack
11. Running Man
My girlfriend and I used to work at the same ski hill, and the place was pretty much full of seasonal employees. Revolving door status. Anyway, she got this new dude in her department that everyone thought was a super nice guy.
I did not trust him. There was just something about the way he talked to female employees that just seemed...weird. He was trying to gain their trust way too quickly.
I made my sentiments known to my girlfriend and other friends and they thought I was just being jealous or something. I worked part-time out of town at the time, and he'd always ask me what days I was gone, it was weird.
He also didn't have a car, so sometimes my girlfriend would give him a ride home, and he'd ask her to hang out at our place when I was out of town. She declined.
So at the end of the season, a female friend of ours and this kid decide to rent a place together (they weren't dating) and as they're in the final steps, Federal Marshalls show up and arrest him.
Turns out he had been on the run for over a year for very crucial crimes in a different part of the country. His family had been helping him, and he took the name of his brother while on the run. Filling out the housing application somehow tipped off the marshalls. Trust your instincts.
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12. Scary Neighbor
My mom was a single mom who did the best she could. However, she thought it might be better to leave me with the neighbor than to leave me home alone.
From the age of 6, I pleaded with my mom to let me stay home alone until she got home from work so that I would be okay. My intuition was right.
The neighbor was convicted of multiple crimes of single mom one and two towns over when DNA evidence came into being. He only liked to date and attack non-obese women. Fortunately, my mother was fat.
seagullhunter
13. The Favorite Guy
A few years ago, when I was still in college, I took a summer job at a movie theater. I met a lot of really cool people there, including my SO. But there was this one guy who always gave me the creeps.
We'll call him Drew. He was friends with almost everyone, including my SO, and had been for years. We'd attend the same parties, and he'd do all these little things that would feel like red flags, but apparently not to anyone else.
Fast-forward about a year. I no longer work there. My SO and I have been together for maybe a year, and he has been promoted to manager. Drew has also been promoted to supervisor.
It should be noted that there were many teenagers employed at this theater. One day, two of the younger girls came into the office (if they were 18, they were only just) to talk to my SO.
They tell him they're sorry because they know my SO is friends with Drew, but they have to tell him something. The younger one tells him that she was sitting alone in the break room a few weeks prior, eating her lunch.
Drew walks in and says to her, "Do you touch yourself?" She doesn't answer. He says, "Because if not, you should." I think he said more, but my SO was so furious when he told me that story that he was having trouble telling.
My SO fills out the report for the poor girl and passes it on to the GM, who then informs him that Drew already has five counts of that case on his file. But corporate loved him, so they could never fire him.
My SO never spoke to Drew again. Last I heard, he was fired and removed from his job at a brewery by security for that case. Many of our other friends are still very close to him. I don't understand it, but I'm just thrilled to have that creep out of my life.
KitchenSwillForPigs
14. Grandma’s Boy
Apparently, when I was 4 or 5, my grandma introduced me to a new boyfriend. Everyone liked him, but I would have nothing to do with him. I wrinkled my nose, and he wouldn't leave me alone.
I guess he just came into her apartment one day, walked at her with something behind his back, and said nothing. She got an eerie feeling and said, "Are you going to finish me off?"
With a dead-faced stare, he approached her. She managed to jump over some furniture and get away (she'd always been in great shape, running 3 miles a day until age 80).
She got somewhere safe, called the police, and never saw him again.
TurboVeggie
15. The Witch
My mother's cousin is a vet in a rural area. This dude makes a lot of money and is a really nice guy. He was very close with his elderly mom and dad. Sadly, his first wife lost a ton of weight and then felt that she was out of his league and left him.
A few years later, he shows up at my mom's house with this Sophia Loren type—10x out of his league. She was all sweet and sugar pie to everyone.
I forgot what I did to piss her off, but it was an accident...but she broke character for just a second...and let Cruella DeVille show through. I was a kid, and she grabbed my arm and looked at me like she would finish me off.
Everyone said I was crazy...and mean...and that looks aren't everything...and that she loves him. Like I was trying to sabotage his relationship. Screw me, right?
Flash forward 2 years...she kicked his parents out of the house they had been in for 50 years...sold their home against their will...stole all their money..forced him to choose between them and her...sadly he chose her.
She drained him...tore apart his family, and ruined the last year of his father's life. He died scared and miserable. He told his mother, "Just give me the money. You won't live long enough to use it." It broke her heart that her son just stood there.
But karma paid that witch a visit to the tune of acute leukemia, and she died. His mother is still alive, in her 90s, and doing pretty well. He's back in the fold...just sucks that his father didn't get to see the end where everything went back to the way it was.
Pantarus
16. No Rich Guy
My sister's boyfriend. I just immediately found him to be very "fake" and disingenuous. But the rest of the family loved him and found him very charming.
He owned a running store franchise that was more successful than the original store and was also doing well trading on the stock market.
He sold the store back to the owners for a ton of money to focus on the stock market, but this was around the time of the market crash.
To help with that, he worked as a salesman at the store. They eventually got married and bought a huge house. And that's when the cops came knocking at the door to their large home with a view.
He wasn't rich. He never owned the store.
He was only ever a worker and had been stealing cash from the register/products and selling them on eBay. The divorce came quick after that.
saladada
17. Secret Business
Psychophant Jeremy is a younger, Weasley-looking dude I worked with at a music shop in the UK. He was the perfect employee: he was early to work and stayed late every day.
He'd fix things and tinker about being helpful when there were no customers, and I was sitting around playing the expensive keyboards.
I always knew he was a jerk inside. But the managers loved him for the reasons above. Had nicknames for him and crap. And then I left the job. Fast forward a few months; I go in for some guitar strings, and Jeremy's not there.
Jeremy had been stealing those expensive keyboards and high-end audio equipment. That's why he was always staying late - he was loading the gear into his mini out the back of the shop. He'd been at it for ages.
He got sent to court, and last I heard, he was paying back incremental installments of thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods.
He got caught because he had left his shop account logged on to the manager, who loved his computer. All the gear on there was tallied, in reverse chronological order, with the stuff that had been going missing.
That was my chance for an I-Told-You-So, but Gordo already looked hurt enough by it.
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18. Tip Thief
The girl who trained me had major seniority at this place and was the golden child of the managers. It would be fair enough, but she was a huuuugggge witch who bossed people around, looked down on them, etc...
I eventually quit that place, but right before I left, she was caught changing the Tips on receipts by a customer. Someone had noticed and called into the restaurant.
They pulled the receipt from the paperwork, and yes, the Tips said $15 rather than $5. The managers thought surely this was a mistake.
The GM and her main fanboy pulled all of the receipts under her POS login. The stars aligned, and yes, she had been stealing hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars from customers one transaction at a time.
They had to call every customer she had so that they could get a hold of them through the credit card companies. The restaurant also took her to court.
GailTheeSnail
19. Back To You
The new guy at the office was very charming, and everyone liked him from day 1, but there was something off. Three months later, he threw me under the bus on a big project, and it backfired on him because I was ready.
He quit a couple of months later because people knew what he had done, and they stopped working with him. Don't be a jerk. A meeting was coming up, and he invited me along as a fly on the wall.
Since I didn't trust him, I prepared content for the meeting just in case. When the meeting started, he was not on the conference call. The stakeholder said, "Equallynuts, your coworker said you had numbers to present."
Well, thank God I had numbers and a slide ready. The meeting ended, and he never showed up, and the stakeholder was pissed with him, and he wrote a long nasty email to our manager.
My manager asked me what had happened, and I told him, playing dumb, that he had invited me to the meeting with no direction. Still, it was a good thing I had the slides ready cuz otherwise, our team and my boss would've looked bad.
He agreed and ended up chewing him out pretty bad, and I got a big recognition for "always being ready." I warned my close coworkers about what he had done to me.
Little by little, everyone noticed how crappy he was and started giving him the cold shoulder. He eventually quit, and no one in the office cared by that point.
Equallynuts
20. Guy Guts
When I first started dating my wife, her best friend also started dating a dude named Brian. We drove her friend over to Brian's house one day and went inside and met him.
I could tell right away that he was a freaking scumbag. It wasn't anything he said or did. I just credit the instinct all guys have to detect obvious pieces of crap.
I didn't say anything because I was also the new boyfriend and didn't want to create any problems. Three months later, Brian knocks up the friend and tells her he can't have anything to do with her anymore because he's had another girlfriend for a year, and our friend was just a side fling.
Doublejpee
21. Knew From The Start
When I was a senior in high school, my multimedia teacher was loved by everybody, but I hated that guy. He was a complete jerk to me, and I was back to him.
He was super chill with the guys and an "incorrigible flirt" with the girls. Um, we're 98% under 18. But everybody laughed when I'd say something about how weird he was around the chicks.
I was even told it was because I was overweight, unattractive, and too sarcastic/mouthy, and that's why he picked on me. Oh well. Life went on.
A few years after high school, I heard that he had been fired for committing crimes. His poor wife at the time worked in the attendance office, too, and had to take time away from work so the gossip would simmer down.
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22. Bad Soul
Kind of related. Not a person but a dog. Years ago, I had a girlfriend who lived at home with her sister, parents, 3 dogs, and a cat.
One of the dogs was a big, goofy lab who loved everyone—I mean everyone. Two-year-olds could climb all over him, and he loved it.
Anyway, the sister had been seeing some guy for a little while, maybe a month, and she was bringing him home to meet the family for the first time. The guy hadn't even come to the door yet.
The dog was in the house and went ballistic. I had never seen anything like it. He went from goofball to apex predator. Needless to say, he couldn't come in the house.
They had to leave. About two weeks later, the sister comes home. He had slapped her, and she ended it. She also found out that he attacked his Ex-wife before her.
Porkpie1028
23. Her House
When I was a boy (7-8), I would frequently go to a coffee shop with my parents. There would often be a middle-aged Asian woman hanging out.
She was a regular, the baristas knew her, and my parents were friendly with her. Sometimes, I would play board games with my parents and her.
She gave me the freaking creeps, but I couldn't pinpoint why. My parents knew I didn't like her much, but not to the fullest extent.
Anyway, the first time I was with her without my parents there (they were starting the car or something like that), she tried to get me to return to her house.
She wouldn't take no for an answer and got pushy. When my parents came back, I told them what happened, and we never went there again.
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24. The New Girl
One of my brothers was dating this girl, and everyone else had met her several times before I did since I was off at college. So, my first impression of her is when she shows up at our house and just walks right in.
She doesn't knock, and she doesn't let anyone know she's in there. Just walks her happy ass inside and sits on the couch. So then, when I came down the hallway into the living room, the witch had this super vapid smile on her face.
I just had this weird gut instinct that she was hiding something from everyone and was going to fight to the death to keep it hidden.
I told my mom that she gave me a weird vibe, and I was told to stop being jealous. But a long story short, she ended up having another relationship and life with another guy three hours away.
NC_DE336
25. Men Lover
A girl I know is doing this. All my friends loved her, but something in my gut told me something wasn't right. She was always flirting with all the lads, acting very single.
Find out she's seeing a guy I know from other friends. Not only that, it turns out she also has another boyfriend she's had for years.
So she has a long-term boyfriend, is seeing this other guy, and is, by all means, trying to get with my friends too. It was very surreal. But I was just jealous of her when I didn't warm to her straight away like everyone else.
Arcticfunkymonkey
26. Not A Good Guy
My stepdad. On the surface, he seemed like a good guy. Went to church twice on Sundays and once on Wednesdays. Always helped out when someone needed help, whether it was something as simple as loaning 5 bucks or something as complicated as roofing a house.
He had a good-paying job and refused to smoke inside the house. When he and my mom went out on dates, he always brought home food for all of us and toys for the younger kids. He would randomly take everyone out to dinner or to the theater.
Despite all of that, I disliked him from the moment I met him, even before he showed interest in my mom. People told me I was being paranoid and not to worry.
Fast forward a year. He and my mom are married. I just got a job and was waiting for my first paycheck before moving out alone. My manager gets a frantic call that I need to come home pronto.
My stepdad had been secretly spending all of our bill money on substances; we were about to be evicted, the power had already been disconnected, the water service was about to be, and stepdad tried to kill my pregnant mom.
Later on, during the restraining order court hearing, he threatened to cut the baby out of my mom's stomach and leave her and the fetus in an abandoned fridge in a field.
[deleted]
27. Rude Guy
I used to be in front-of-house management, and I normally have an instinct for people. I once had a chef hired who was just a bit iffy.
Kept going on about his girlfriend being younger than him. Everyone really liked him, but I wasn't too sure. I once put an order through the system without putting a table number on the ticket.
Went in to write on there, and he threw his knife down and threw the ticket at me and called me all sorts of things and refused to even look at it unless the number was printed on the ticket.
I should have been more authoritative, but I was young and weak at the time. That was the beginning of a slide towards him leaving. I fully understand you.
tobyw_w
28. Worst Father
My brother-in-law. He and my sister-in-law lived across the country, and I had never met him. They had only been married for a short time.
They came for a visit. He just gave me the creeps. When there's something off, you just know sometimes. It's hard to explain. It's little things.
For example, he would play with the little kids at family stuff while the other guys drank beer and watched sports. One day, I got a frantic call at work from my wife that he was arrested, and their kids were taken into state custody. He was alone at home with the kids when the police came.
[deleted]
29. The Besties
My partner moved in with a girl who was her 'best friend.' I had gut feelings about her being not exactly stable due to my own history of being not exactly a great teenager and also dating a few not-so-stable girls.
Apparently, my girlfriend loved this girl and had a great friendship, so I let it go along. Still, she went weird and started not showing up at the apartment for a couple of weeks, and when she turned up, she always did something impulsive that ended in failure.
For example, bought a $50 washing machine that leaked everywhere and told the other roommate that she'd hit the other roommate's cats with her car because she suddenly developed an allergy to them.
Safe to say, my girlfriend finally realized that this other girl was unstable, manipulative, and frankly just didn't care about anyone but herself. She broke the lease, earning a mark on herself and getting kicked out.
Magnum231
30. The Frauds
I graduated with a degree in computer science during the dot-com boom in the 1990s. A friend from high school and his girlfriend practically begged me to come work at their startup.
I interviewed them, and they made a great salary offer (by far the biggest paycheck I'd ever seen), and I went ahead and accepted.
Fast forward a few months, and the CEO starts having these weekly meetings where he just talks to us, telling us his thoughts about the industry, the company's direction, etc.
I guess they're supposed to be motivational. One day, I'm watching this guy, and I suddenly realize that he's a total clown. Someone who has no idea what he's doing.
I asked about his background, and it turned out he was just a random business school graduate who was friends with the founder of this other startup we split from. I start working on my resume and bail. My friends asked me to stay, but I said there was no way.
Fast forward a year (maybe 2?). They are out of business...They took a million in venture capital and blew it in 6 months on all sorts of dumb things, including an expensive car with the company logo printed all over it.
My friend and everyone are all bouncing around looking for jobs. They all did fine, but I'm still glad I didn't stick around for the depressing slow death phase...
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31. The Creep
In college (a small one), there was a guy who was generally affable but just awful to be on projects with. He would fight, couldn't handle criticism, wouldn't take direction from women, etc.
But he was fun outside of class. I just got a feeling something was off, wrong, or bad about this human. I was brushed off as an overly sensitive woman.
At the end of the first year, he was reprimanded for being found in another gentleman's dorm room while the other gentleman was asleep (or had passed out). The kid (18-year-old)woke up, and the (bad) dude (26-year-old) was standing by his bed, staring at him. I think that's weird.
rebak3
32. Big Cheater
The guy my wife was dating before she started dating me. At the time, she and I were just friends at her request. She even asked me beforehand if I was ok with her dating him.
She knew I had a crush on her and wanted to make sure I was cool with it. I told her I had a bad feeling about him but wouldn't stand her way.
She ends up barely hearing from him and rarely seeing him because he's 'busy,' and she feels neglected. Later, a lady accosts her online, demanding to know why she was fooling around with her man.
She was seeing the same guy, was engaged to this guy, and was pregnant for a month longer than my (future) wife had been dating this sleazeball.
(Future) wife was rightly very, very pissed since she didn't know he was cheating on another woman with her. Then the bastard 'dumped' her before she could. She felt so cheated again. I have never held this against her, no "I told you so." That was the last thing she needed to hear.
Saberus_Terras
33. Private Investigation
Not me but my mother, who had several times. The biggest, however, was when my mother was starting to get sick from cancer and became highly religious, like crazy religious.
Anyways, she started saying a lot of things that the family was concerned about at first but would shrug off because when it starts happening that much to someone you love, you don't want to even accept they are going crazy.
She kept saying my dad always had a red face when he got home from work and started accusing him of cheating. My dad was always busy and always had airtight reasons for where he was with evidence, and my mom just seemed nuts.
She then hired a private detective, which cost thousands, and the whole family got pissed because this guy didn't find anything.
She then hired another one, and everyone was starting to get really, really angry when this one discovered the whole time my dad was cheating.
My mom didn't even brag about how we thought she was crazy; she just cared about how it affected us kids. The best person I knew.
Dragonswift
34. Childish Behavior
It was like that with my niece's boyfriend (she was about 16). He seemed a hard-working guy who tried to get the family to like him by helping in any way he could. I just couldn't like him despite everyone else loves him.
She was with him for at least 6 months before I wanted to take her to the mall for a last hang-out day as I was moving states very shortly after, and I'd miss her. The guy just had to come along when my plan was just the two of us.
Then, they had an argument in the car on the way to the mall about her texting people and not wanting to give up her phone. I told him flat out that he didn't need to see her phone.
That's her damn phone, and if she wants to talk to male friends, that's her damn right. This continued into the mall, where he hauled off and punched a sign, essentially breaking it.
It was just one of those stand-alone signs near the stairs, but security came and made us leave. My last outing with her was ruined because this douche was an overbearing asshole. I treated them like children on the way home. She sat in the front with me WITH HER PHONE, and he was in the back.
ImAPixiePrincess
35. Business Minded
I lived in a duplex with a couple of roommates, and the owner came by with a new guy and told me to get to know him as he may be moving in to fill a room.
He spent about an hour with us, and the dude gave me an odd vibe. The other roomies seemed to like him, but I made it known that something was up and that I wasn't getting a good feeling from him.
He moved in, had no job, and seemed to have some money. About 6 months in, roomies started noticing games were missing from the Xbox.
Within a few weeks, we saw several games had been missing. We came to find out the kid had taken the games and sold them around the corner at a game shop. Didn't go too well after we found out, and he chose to quickly pack his shit up and leave.
Firesquid
36. Getting In Touch
I had a guy friend growing up that I had lost contact with. I happened to think about him one day, and I found him on Facebook.
I saw that he has a family and a newborn baby. Anyway, he instantly accepted my friend request and started messaging me, and just the way he was talking and responding so quickly set up a red flag.
I ended the conversation for that day and lied that I wouldn't be in contact for a while. For whatever reason, I have him. Every day, he would message me, "Good morning beautiful," or "hope I can see you soon! ;)"
When I finally actually opened messenger (it shows if you've read the messages or not), he was instantly back on the chat trying to get me to go on a date with him and to maybe hookup later... blocked that jerk right then.
LindseyLee5
37. The Real Friend
I was in 4th grade back in 1996. One day my best friend pissed off some other kid at recess and was about to get beaten up when all of a sudden, this cool guy rolled up on his motorcycle and stopped the fight.
The guy's name was Frankie, and everyone knew him as one of the most incredible guys in the city. He wore a leather jacket, had a sweet bike with flames painted on it, and had a kind of Fonzie vibe.
He befriended my buddy, and they started hanging out with Frankie's gang members, riding around the city on his bike, etc. Everybody in school worshiped Frankie and was really jealous of my friend.
Still, I always had a bad feeling about Frankie. Nobody believed me, but my gut instinct ended up being correct. One night, when my friend was hanging out with Frankie's crew, I became suspicious and decided to follow them.
As it turns out, they planned on "using" my friend the whole time. They wanted to rob a store and believed my friend's head would fit through the football-shaped window in the back.
Fortunately, I arrived at the right time while my friend was coerced into breaking into the store. I brought a hand-cranked police siren, which scared off Frankie and his crew.
I helped my friend get his head unstuck from the window, and that was that. He was pretty ashamed to have fallen for Frankie's manipulating tactics and thanked me profusely, but I just told him that's what friends are for.
We're still best friends all these years later. Every once in a while, Arnold and I recall this story and laugh about it. Good times.
RaVNzCRoFT
38. Same Name
My husband's coworker made me uneasy when I met her at their company's party. First, we had the same name, and I thought, oh great, another "Claire."
Then she became really interested in talking to me all night. I couldn't shake her, and her attitude was kind of abrasive. Something didn't feel right.
I am friends with several of my husband's coworkers and asked them about her. They freaking love this girl. "Oh, Claire is so great!" "I love her attitude, such sass!" "Yeah, she can be a little rough, but she is funny." "She lives right near you guys. We should all hang out!"
A few weeks later, my husband didn't come home by 2 or so, and I checked the bank account - he had been to several restaurants, shops, and bars and was ordering quite a lot for one person.
We have been together for 12 years and share a computer. I decided to check the computer and see if he had Googled an event or something I didn't know about.
His messages contained texts to Claire. They were out together, alone. He had been sneaking around with her for months. She lives within walking distance, so that night, he was also at her apartment—probably not the first time either.
I guess she really wanted to get to know the woman whose husband she was sneaking around with. I knew that girl was off. My husband and I are resolving it on our own, and none of our mutual friends know her involvement in our marriage.
They still think she is so great! I'm waiting for it all to naturally implode when we end up at the next event together, and she decides to talk to me.
boobooboopity
39. The Destroyer
I used to be an administrator of a college radio station, and there was this guy who came in and immediately charmed everyone via his looks and charisma.
Only a good friend of mine who was also on staff there (who worked with him years prior at a different company) and I were put off by him because something seemed... off.
I was civil, but I kept things at arm's length, especially after I was publicly snubbed by him when he was passing out invitations to his wedding (which sucks for him, as I give awesome gifts).
Fast forward to the next summer: I'm moving internationally and will be leaving my position; however, the next person to take my job was out of state for the summer, so I offered to continue as acting administrator until I left (which would coincide to around the time of the new guy's return).
At this point, the charmer also had gained a position of authority. He almost immediately dropped the facade of friendliness.
He began blatantly manipulating the entire station to change from a music station to a sports/talk format, which everyone acquiesced to because the general manager had a crush on him, which he exploited despite being married.
When I tried to call him out on this being a very bad idea, he screamed at me in front of the entire board (the only reason I didn't scream right back was that I was dealing with a brutal stomach bug and didn't much feel like vomiting by raising my voice). The board just let him get away with it.
So, despite my protests, the station began emphasizing sports and talk. I left and washed my hands of the situation; they didn't listen to my judgment once before, and the station tanked (which is another story entirely), so I would let this play out.
Three months after I moved, I found out that the station has, so far, received multiple FCC complaints and listener complaints.
Also, they cut back on decades-long flagship music shows with huge followings in favor of live-to-air sports broadcasts and had frozen the budget due to negligence, a good chunk of which was due to this guy's incompetence and the GM's passivity to it.
That was four years ago; the station (which is one of my babies, given how much time I've put into it) is still recovering, all because of one smarmy douche.
chrisdurand
40. The Service Dog
I work overnights at a gas station. One night, like two years ago, this guy came in, and I instantly disliked him. Like an immediate gut feeling, 'This guy and I will not get along.'
He had just moved into the area and started coming to the store regularly. He made friends with some of my co-workers. I still didn't like him.
Cut to about a year into it, he gets a puppy. The dog is cute, and I don't mind the puppy being in the store because, come on, I'm not going to kick out a puppy.
As the dog grows up, my patience wears thin, and I ask him not to bring the dog in. It's store policy, etc. Of course, as soon as I bring it up, he says it's a service dog.
My jerk detector goes off, but I'll ask my co-workers since they're friends. All my co-workers tell me he's just calling it a service dog so he can bring him wherever he wants.
I still let it go for a few months because it isn't a big deal, and I don't TRY to look for arguments with people. Then, one night, he came in, and a different person was holding the dog's leash, which was the line for me.
If you're going to claim that as a service dog, you damn well better know the rules you're breaking. I asked them to leave the dog outside, and he said no way, that's a service dog. He doesn't have to.
I say no, man. You need to be in control of the dog. So he just grabs the leash and says, 'What now?' I say, well, what service is that dog trained to do? (FYI, that's literally the only question I can ask regarding service animals.)
I'm not asking about his disability, simply what the dog will do in the store). He refuses to answer, says I can't ask that question, threatens lawsuits, and gets extremely angry.
So I ask him and his crew to leave, which he does with a nice flipping of the bird and homophobic slur to cap it all off. So he went to my boss and complained. My boss comes to me and says hey, it's not a big deal; we don't want trouble, just don't talk to him any more than you have to.
And my boss is probably right. I don't like it because the argument turned personal against me. We have the right to refuse service to jerks no matter what, but whatever, he wins his little fight, and I continue to sell him stuff for another week.
Then he went back to my boss and said, 'You know what? That's actually not good enough anymore. My civil rights were violated, and I'm going to demand that you fire the guy who kicked me out of the store. I want a settlement of $50,000, or else I'll sue.”
So my boss came to me and said, "Yeah, you were right, that guy is a jerk.” I banned him from the store; if he comes in, just say he's not allowed in and call the police if he doesn't leave." And I saw or heard about him again for six months last week.
Razvee
41. Girl Weirdo
When I was 12, there was this girl in our class. She was bubbly and popular, but I felt something about her was off. I remember standing by my locker and literally telling my best friend, "I don't trust her. I don't think we should be friends with her."
However, my best friend ended up befriending her throughout the school year, and consequently, I became friendly with her.
Fast-forward to the second half of the following school year, and she has completely manipulated students and teachers so that they do not like me.
I was a timid, easygoing kid then, and it absolutely destroyed me that I thought I had done something wrong. She did a lot of hurtful things I won't get into right now.
She was a bully, but bullying happens, so I didn't think anything of it. My mother had me transferred to another class to get away from the toxic environment, I had blocked everyone I knew from the old class, and that was supposed to be the end of it.
But it wasn't. Over the next couple of years, she berated me, called me with other people's phones, and had other people call me to hear me out about anything and everything.
One day, I came home and walked into the living room. And two of her friends had gotten into the house by lying to my parents about being good friends with me, and they were waiting for me.
The thing is, though, these two girls lived 2 hours away. These 14-year-old girls had taken the train and traveled 2 hours to lie their way into my home just because this girl said I deserved it somehow.
She would also walk past my bedroom window at odd hours and just stand there for a while on more than one occasion. Because we were both 14 years old, nobody took me seriously.
I kept changing my phone numbers, and she would somehow find them every single time. Apparently, she had also stalked an ex-boyfriend when she was 16 or 17 and gone hysterical over something weird, I don't remember.
I'm 22, and I moved away a couple of years ago. I haven't heard from her since I was 18, but I'm still wary of any of her friends because she's weird—and I knew it.
FuckingClassAct
42. Detecting Bad Soul
My brother's youth soccer coach. He was a great coach that really knew how to win. Everybody liked the guy, including my whole family and me.
I was only 8-12 when I knew him, but he was very kind to me and would even let me practice with the team even though I was four years younger.
My family had an old golden retriever at the time that did nothing but sleep, poop, and eat, with the occasional walk around the living room to get a good back scratch.
I grew up with him when he was a pup, and I never saw him be aggressive to anyone or any other animals besides a few squirrels when he was young.
One day, this soccer coach came to our house to chat about an upcoming tournament with my dad, an assistant coach, and my brother. Our old golden went ballistic as soon as he walked in the door.
I had never seen him act this way. We had to hold him back from going Cujo on him. Because of him, he never entered our house.
A year later, this man was sentenced to life in prison. This could have been an odd coincidence, but I like to think that our old pup was protecting us from a very bad man we couldn't see from the outside.
moon_hooch
43. The Scammer
He was a property manager for my family and a few other friends since we all had holiday homes in the same area. He was very loud and charismatic, and he was generally someone people liked or who almost intimidated people into liking him.
He left after the first time we all met him, and the first thing I said was, 'I don't like him.' my parents gave out snide judgment, and I said, 'ok, well then, I don't trust him.'
2 years later, he left the country and went back home. He left with money from the other families (not huge sums; they were teachers and accountants, not millionaires).
People tried to get in touch, and he basically berated them down the phone, saying they were violating them when he was the one with their money! His business went bankrupt, and some people were out of pocket by a couple of thousand.
seanf999
44. Pathological Liar
A new hire (cell phone repair tech) came in, and everyone loved him. I didn't see anything wrong with the guy, but I just couldn't stand being around him.
After a few months, he started slacking off, causing others to have to work harder and finish his projects.
He also started lying to our customers to make himself look better and was ultimately fired for stealing thousands of dollars worth of inventory.
It has been three months since he left, and we are still cleaning up a few messes he caused (unhappy customers and unfinished or botched repairs)
Toastmaster3000
45. Dodging Danger
I was raised pretty sheltered and was really naive to many things. I knew not to talk to strangers but was brought up to believe we lived in a safe neighborhood with friendly neighbors.
One afternoon, when I was around 9, I was walking alone a few streets from where I lived, and out of nowhere, this guy called out to me from his garage.
I stopped walking, but before I could respond, he was already walking towards me on the sidewalk. The guy had to be in his early to mid-40s, a little heavier.
"Hey! You look like a pretty strong kid. Could you help me? I need to move a kitchen table inside the house." He pointed his thumb towards the house.
Like I said, I was pretty naive and didn't even know anything about pedophiles, but the entire thing raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Sirens inside me had just started flashing. I just remember running away and not looking back. Ran straight home.
It took years to realize how alarming it was that he asked a scrawny 9-year-old boy to help him move heavy furniture.
shaydatticus