1 Good Luck To Both Of You

2 Romance Display At My Local Barnes & Nobles. I Probably Laughed Too Loud

3 “I’m Sure You’re All Wondering Why I’ve Gathered You Here Today”

4 I’m A Whale

5 Possibly The Best Second Hand Shop Name Ever!

6 My Friend Went To The Aquarium This Morning And Sent Me This

7 Too Much Job

8 I Need To Invest In Some Socks Myself

9 Thought This Was A Muppet

10 Nailed It

11 Babysitting

12 Took This Photo In 2020, And Still Love It

13 Clippy! Is That You, Old Friend?

14 How To Tell Your Husband You Accidentally Shrank His Favorite Wool Sweater

15 Towel Animal Left By The Hotel Staff

16 Would Make A Good Book Cover

17 Technically Correct

18 The Revolution Has Begun

19 Found You Mate

20 My Dad Sent Me This Pic Of Him And One Of My Hens

21 Penne For Your Thoughts, M’lady

22 I Love How Dogs Always Look Like They Understand What The Joke Is

23 I Put Eyebrows On My Bag… That Is All. Thank You For Your Time

24 For Weeks We’ve Been Having Issues With A Bird Flying Into This Window. My Daughter’s Nicolas Cage Pillow Solved The Problem

25 Who Loves To Learn?

26 Stairs Down To Pub Toilets – They Know Their Customers!

27 I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby

28 “That’s A No From Me,” – Dog

29 Convenient Place To Store This Large Garden Statue

30 Mr. Crab’s First Dollar

31 The Holiday Spirit Mixed With Some Humor

32 When Self-Care Turns Into Group Therapy

33 Santa Has Different Priorities After The Christmas Rush

34 My Friend Told Me That I Look Like A Popsicle Stick

35 I Always Suspected That Anime Mecha Stuff Was Based On Real Life, Too Many Different Shows All So Popular For It To Be Fake

36 In My College’s Caf And This Happened. Thank You Stranger

37 A Friend Of Mine Told Me To Take These And Now I’m On A Whole New Level

38 My Little Niece Thought That Putting Sunglasses And A Hat On My Dog Would Be Really Funny… She Was Correct

39 You Can’t Take The Sky From Me

40 I Met A Very Friendly And Pretty Bird Yesterday. The Camera Doesnt Agree

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Self Proclaimed Ladies Man/Life Of The Party, Moves To Us. Still Has The Same Hair On His Head As He Did Before. Asking 3k

Sarcophagus Full Of Ramen For $1000

She’s Selling A Walmart Shopping Cart… For 50 Bucks

Dude Thinks He’s Entitled To My Free Lawnmower

One Of The Kookier Things I’ve Stumbled Across On Fb Marketplace

Japanese Mature For Scale

Surprisingly, Nobody Was Interested In This Offer

Very Old One

How I Upset A Low Baller

Absolutely Gobsmacked

How Much?

Buy Me Lunch So I Can Talk About Myself

Recent One I Found

No. Nasty. Remarks. Please

Seller Wants You To Pay Him $5000 To Haul Off His Storm Damage

Autism Table. Handcrafted And Made By Someone Personally Touched By Autism, Whatever That Means

Am I Crazy?

Be Liable For My $3000 Loan In Exchange For $100 Plus Gifts

ASAP! Give Me 500-8000 For A Piano People Pay To Have Hauled Away

The Oh So Coveted “Rare Black Diamond” Vhs’

Looking For Quick Sale!

Wait… What?

Bruh

25 Dollars For A Single Pair Of Socks With Some Beads Attached

Only $50 And You Can Own This Vintage 90’s Plastic As Walmart Bag

Help Emptying My Tank

That Burger Cell Is Sweet And All, But

For Only $1,000 This Handmade Jouch Can Be Yours!

Pay Me $3k For An Opportunity To Dispose My Pool And Fill Up The Hole

“Only Worn A Few Times”

This Man Is Looking For A Servant WTH

Never Thought I’d See Such A Good One In The Wild

This Was Posted In A Local Facebook Group In South Florida

What A Deal!!!

No Thank You

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The Library Places The Books On The Lower Shelves On Their Sides So The Titles Are Easier To Read

My School Put Up Whiteboards To Stop Vandalism In The Toilet Rooms

Poster At My Local Bar In The Women’s Bathroom, Which Shares The Secret Phrase For Communicating Problems To The Bar Staff

This Chess Set Teaches You How The Pieces Move

My Local Library Has Vault You Can Go Into To Talk On Your Phone

This Parking Lot Has The White Lines On The Wall So It Is Easier For People To Park

My Beer 4-Pack Came With Paperboard Rings, Instead Of Plastic

My Hotel’s Sun Canopy Is Connected To A Wind Meter, Which Automatically Causes It To Retract When The Wind Speed Becomes Too High

This Picnic Table With An Extension For Wheelchair Users

This Pharmacy Has A Magnifying Glass So People Can Read Medicine Labels And Details More Easily

A School In My Town Has A Share Bin

The Napkin On My Flight Has A Button Hole

You Can Shoot Your Car With Suds While You’re Waiting Inside At My Local Car Wash

This Shirt Has A Piece Of Lens Cloth Sewn On The Inside For Your Glasses

This Mini Van Comes With A Built In Vacuum

My University Library Has A Wall Where You Can Quite Literally Take A Seat

My 3 Tacos Came In A Container That Was Made To Hold 3 Tacos Upright

At My Library You Can Pick Up Bags Of Books In A Certain Genre Without Knowing What Those Books Are

My Movie Theater Has A Sign For End Credits

My Local QT Has A System Where You Have To Scan Your ID For The Coolers With Alcohol In Them To Open Up

This Coffee Place Uses Coffee Ice Cubes

Band-Aid Kept Falling Off. Cut The Wings Down The Middle And Cross-Crossed Them, And Now It Stays On All Day

Shopping Carts In This Store Come With A Magnifying Glasses

This Wood Carving Knife I Bought Comes With Bandaids In The Box

My City Has Public Defibrillation Stations And The Sign For It Looks Like A Video Game Health Bar

My ADHD Meds Came With A Fidget Cube

My Dad’s New Car Has Cup Holders That Can Warm Up Your Drink Or Cool It Down

Our Local Supermarket Offers Free Fruits For Children To Snack While Shopping

My School’s Library Has Noise-Level Guides That Change Colour When It Gets Too Loud

This Beer, Bought From Burger King, Came In A Jug With A Side Compartment Full Of Ice To Keep The Beer Cool

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Lola, A Romantic Comedy From 1970

The Sunpod Was Used So You Could Go To The Beach And Not Get Bothered When You Tan, 1982

A Cartoon About A Hypothetical “Pocket Telephone,” From 1919

Whiskey Vending Machine, 1960

The Ingredients On “One Night Cough Syrup”

Ella Fitzgerald Arrested After Singing To An Integrated Audience In 1955

Menswear From The Jc Penney Catalog, 1970

Defense Shoes To Protect Young Girl From Street Romeos

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Was Arrested For Protesting In 1961

Who Remembers People Smoking In The Malls Back In The 1980’s ?!

The 1903 Mugshot Of Bertha Liebbeke, A Woman Who Would Approach Wealthy Men In Crowds And Pretend To Faint In Their Arms — Then Would Relieve Them Of All The Valuables In Their Pockets

Never Forgot This Proactive Ad From When I Was A Kid

Paparazzi Take Pictures Of Bill Clinton’s Cat Named Socks, 1992

Sugar Information, Inc., 1964

The Protection Ball

Futuristic Baby Stroller, West Germany, 1950s

A Dangerous Playground From The 70s

Can You Even Imagine? Northwest Airlines Organist, 1959

Mister Merry’s Play Lighter

The Sausage Queen, 1955

Hard To Top This One…

Household Hint From An Old Magazine

A Union Officer Being Silly 1860-65

For Smokers-In-Bed

AIDS, The Homosexual Disease Threatening American Families. 1983

A Sign In A Hotel Room Warns The Occupant That Snoring Is Forbidden, 1926

The Shirt Suit Supreme, 1972

Creepy Love’s Baby Soft Advertisement From 1975

Hefty Girls Wanted For Police Force (Must Be Fairly Good Looking). London Metropolitan Police, 1930s

My Grandfather’s Signature Pose In Photos, Took His Resemblance To A Certain Dictator A Little Too Seriously

Now That’s Just Mean. Old Lead Industry Advertisement

The Michelin Band Performs At The Opening Of The Michelin Hour Radio Program, 1928

Pull My Hair And See

Prank My Great Grandpa’s Friends Played On Him In The 70’s

This Was A Size 20 In 1965. Look At This Plus-Sized Heifer!

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If you happened to be the non-favourite child, then you know how differently parents treated you in comparison to the golden child who could seemingly do no wrong.

All the transgressions of the favourite child were minor and forgiven immediately with barely any consequences from their doting parents, even if it ultimately turned out to be a disservice to the child. Below, we’ve shared a list of stories found on the ‘Ask Reddit’ community from siblings of the ‘golden children’ on how that turned out in the long run for the family and the child in question themselves.

1. She died in a one car drunk driving accident. She was the drunk driver.

Responsible-Onion860:

This happened to another family at my elementary school. One of my classmate’s older brother was the golden child, not just in his family but in the school. One weekend when he was 17, he got drunk and crashed his car, k**ling himself and a passenger and causing a third occupant to be disabled for life (he recently passed away, about 15 years after the crash). Everyone got real quiet about the golden boy, even though the tragedy was very foreseeable and preventable.

2. My brother.

Grew up to be a malignant narcissist himself and my mom favoured him and supported his bad behaviour – gave him money and never made him accountable to making good choices. He moved into the home my parents owned and was awful to live with but she never would let my dad kick him out. My mom’s health declined over the last few years and my dad was her main caretaker until his dementia became too progressed and he was placed in a long term care home…. Leaving my mom to rely solely on my brother to take care of her.

It lasted 6 months. She ended up falling and breaking her hip in October because of course he did nothing to help her. She died a month later in the hospital, alone and in pain.

3.  My little brother was always treated better. Vacations, hobbies, vehicles, gifts. He was a spoiled brat. I didn’t find out til later that my dad wasn’t my bio dad. This definitely put things in perspective once I found out.

Growing up, I had a huge gap between my two front teeth. When my adult teeth came in, it got bigger. My parents always said they didn’t have the money to fix it. But when my brother wanted to become a bull rider, they suddenly had thousands of dollars for lessons, gear, and travel expenses. I guessed they spent close to $40,000 the first 2 years he was doing it. Meanwhile, I just wanted braces. The cost of the braces was going to be about $2500. He also got a brand new truck when he turned 16. I had gotten a busted up conversion van that barely ran and wasn’t safe to drive.

It all bit them in the a*s when my brother got a DUI in Texas. Texas does not f**k around. My parents suddenly couldn’t buy his way out of trouble. He did 3 weeks in county jail for it. 6 months after he gets out, he gets pulled over again, and this time gets a DUI, littering, evading police, and hefty speeding ticket. Someone from our city found out and blasted it all over facebook. My parents told me not to talk about it, and boy, did I ignore that. They spent thousands in legal fees, and their reputation was ruined. I laughed in their faces and told them what fun it must be to have such a wonderful child.

4.  Mine is the extreme version.

Basically I am the by product of my mom’s failed second marriage. She filed for divorce right after I was born and honestly she had no business being a mom because she was very mentally ill, just no official diagnosis. My grandparents even tried to get her to give up custody so they could adopt me.

She went on to husband number 3 that would also be husband number 5 later in life. He was my stepdad my whole life and I actually didn’t know he wasn’t my bio dad until they briefly divorced and my mom screamed at me over it.

They had a son. My mom threw everything into my brother and into trying to be accepted into my step Dad’s family. The catch is none of them saw me as anything more than unwanted leftovers from her past. They never wanted me around and made it really f*****g clear I wasn’t wanted.

This escalated into my mom neglecting me, and from there it turned into her physically and mentally abusing me. Which opened the door for my stepdad to get away with physically abusing me too. I was made to clean the whole house for them, including their bedrooms and bathrooms.

Meanwhile my little brother is being raised as a prince. His paternal family shower him with gifts and trips. At home he’s never punished or yelled at. And my parents never tell him no if he wants something. He’s watching how I get treated and starts to join in. At first it’s lying to get me in trouble or stealing my things and lying to keep them or breaking my stuff to make me upset. Eventually he gets bigger than me and starts hitting me too.

This whole time I’m not allowed a birthday party, friends, I’m not given regular medical care or dental visits, hell by the time I was in junior high my mom quit buying me clothes or even a tooth brush. I was getting hand me down clothes from friends.

It started to backfire pretty quickly on my parents. My brother thought he was the center of the universe and was used to getting violent when he didn’t get his way. He also got into drinking and d***s by the time he was in junior high. He started skipping school. He was arrested for a*****t and d***s. My parents went deep into debt paying his court fees and still buying him whatever he wanted.

I joined the military and got as far away as I could. My brother did not. He had to be a super senior to get his diploma and was living my parents partying and draining their bank accounts well into his 20s. They lost their original house to debt and they were renting a place for awhile. But with no one to clean up after any of them anymore, they got kicked out of their house for being disgusting.

My brother decided he needed greener pastures so he moved hundreds of miles away but still had them paying his bills. He’s almost 40 now and that just stopped because my mom died and my stepdad can’t afford anything. My stepdad is now alone hundreds of miles from the only kid he ever cared about and no one to help take care of him.

Meanwhile I got married to a great guy 20 years ago and had two awesome kids. We have our own home well away from that mess. I’ve been in therapy for a few years trying to get over the childhood trauma and I’m doing good.

5.  I’ve got a late-in-life-miracle-baby-only-child cousin who has had an interesting time of this.

Wealthy family, long-awaited baby, he was given top of the line consoles and computers from the age of three, a bedroom and a playroom – which was so full of toys by the time he started preschool that his parents had to ask everyone to stop sending him toys as gifts…

… because he was bought a gift _every single time_ they went anywhere. His mom was just incapable of saying no to her little prince. Every trip to the shoe shop or the supermarket was another new toy.

He just never had to do _anything_ that he didn’t want to do.

Forget about chores and homework. When he wanted to sit up all night playing WoW and sleep through the school day because he ‘didn’t feel well’ that was fine. His parents would throw money at literally anything he showed any interest in. He played a snowboarding videogame for a while so they bought him full skiing and snowboarding gear and they all flew out to the slopes several times… where he sat in the lodge playing videogames on his laptop. They kitted him out with everything you could dream of for a couple of martial arts, golf, a few musical instruments, probably a bunch of other stuff I never heard about. But he knew he was destined to be a professional gamer, so why would he bother with anything else? Gaming was his ticket to fame and glory.

How did all this play out? it turns out that if you do that through most of your teens… you fail out of school at 16 no matter how unbelievably smart your mom thinks you are.

He’s 25 now, still at home, and to the best of my knowledge he still hasn’t completed his high school diploma or any equivalent studies. He’s never held down a job, and hasn’t completed any of the apprenticeships or placements that his parents have organised for him over the years.

His mom still does everything for him, but he’s f*****g miserable. He’s distraught. He doesn’t know anything. He isn’t good at anything. He can’t _do_ anything. He’s got no friends – everyone he was friendly with went off to university, got jobs, are starting to settle down with partners, or travel the world. They’re off living their adult lives and he’s at home with his mom making his lunch for him every day.

6.  My brother was the golden child.

Youngest, only boy that my mother was so desperate to have. And honestly, he’s great. Respectful, kind, happy. He just got married and my mother HATES his wife. So now, after some comments that she really can’t walk back, my mom is low contact with my brother and it’s driving her absolutely insane.

7.  My younger brother was the golden child. I always got treated way worse.

He’s doing fine, I think. But it came back to bite them in the a*s when I realized how s****y they treated me and how s****y they still treat me. So I cut them off for my mental health. My nightmares stopped and they don’t have to pretend they give a s**t about me. So a win for both of us I guess. But sadly my mother doesn’t get to have a relationship with her grandchild, which I think bothers her the most.

8.  My older brother was the golden child, and not just with my parents but also my grandparents.

He got everything he wanted growing up, while I wore hand-me-downs and clothes from yard sales. He went to Disney 3x, the Grand Canyon, and so many cool vacation places. I was never invited. He would get a new 4-wheeler or guitar for Christmas and I’d get used toys from yard sales that were intended for someone much less younger than me. I remember asking for a computer in middle school and receiving one of those little Leap Frog toys instead..

He had some mental issues, what my mother referred to as a chemical imbalance to excuse his behaviors. Choked me until I blacked out on the sidewalk outside our house, kicked down my door, would twist PS controllers and break them if he lost a game to me.

He ended up being held back 3 years in school, made my life in high school a living hell, and thankfully moved out when he was 18. He turned out to be an alcoholic, married a j****e, and I haven’t seen him in years (I didn’t want any part in having his wife around my children). My mom struggles to pay her own bills after paying his. My dad became disabled a few years ago after a stroke while he had Covid, so he’s not working. He was denied benefits because someone claimed unemployment using his identity throughout the pandemic while he was actively working.

My parents have asked me for financial help and I’ve turned them away. We have little to no relationship now. I finally went on my first ever vacation with my children and partner at the age of 35..

9.  My dad depleted his entire retirement fund to bail my brother out of jail and then pay the legal fees to keep him from going to prison.

My brother now has nothing to do with them (or anyone but the sibs all cut him off years ago), is currently ducking the law on fraud charges, and my parents are living hand to mouth blaming bros wife for all his issues in life. Because apparently, there is no possible way it could be his fault.

10.  My sister was the golden child. She also has mental issues (could function as a perfectly regular adult if they hadn’t coddled her so much).

My mom has passed, but she lives with my dad. Recently, she tried to burn his house down, sold his truck, stolen all of his money, and beat the s**t out of him.

I live out of state, so I called APS about her b******t. Called him and told him to let them help him. He just told me, “Well, maybe you’re wrong.” And told the SUPER sweet APS lady that everything was fine.

I washed my hands of it. I’m expecting a call within the next few years letting me know that she has k****d him. The whole family just turns a blind eye to everything she does.

We used to be a really close-knit lower middle-class family. Now everyone is bankrupt and on d***s. I wish I could say I was being dramatic when I say every. Single. Instance. Of these issues can be traced back to my sister.

I gtfo of there and will never go back.

11. Once I got old enough to realize I refused to tolerate it anymore and cut off contact with my mom completely after almost 40 years of her favoring and coddling my older brother.

She now has no contact with me, my husband, or her only two grandchildren. My older, 42 year old brother lives with her STILL, and he’s all she has. Cherry on top? He’s just as narcissistic as she is, and only cares about himself. She lost the one child she had that actually cared about her, (me), and now won’t ever see or speak to her grandchildren again. All because she refuses to admit that she’s not perfect, and could have done things differently. Of course I’m the villain though, right?!

12.  My brother the Golden Child is now a 50 year old unemployed alcoholic.

He never finished high school but was considered so much smarter and better looking than th other four of us. Mum blew so much smoke up his a**e he never achieved anything as he didn’t ever think he had to try. Completely poisoned his life.

13.  My parents always had a strong preference for my sister over me.

They did their best to pave the way for her success. Even when it was harmful to me. They actually sued me for half of my income at one point because my sister deserved it more than me.

It turns out the symptoms that they believed were evedence of her brilliance were actually symptoms of her mental illnesses. She has been diagnosed with several. She is absolutely a non functional person on her best days a person who didn’t know her would instantly know she’s not right.

I’ve essentially gone low contact with my parents I see them on Christmas or Thanksgiving sometimes. I have allowed them to believe I’ve never been promoted, and I’ve been renting my house for 20+years.

We ended up at the same Christmas party. They have announced they are retiring soon they are selling their houses and going to Vegas to gamble their life saving away. When they win a couple million they are going to set up my sister and her kids for life. If they loose they plan to move in with me.

After making sure they were serious. I told them they in fact not be setting foot on my property. They would never come live with me.

They told me my landlord has already agreed to let them live there, if I have a problem he will evict me. I told them I don’t have a landlord. My mom was caught off guard. Sh told me not to be b***h and split hairs. “I knew she meant my banker had agreed to let them take over my house, by picking up payments”.

My dad’s youngest brother told them ” he had a mortgage burning party like 15 years ago.” ( I had an old fashioned party to celebrate paying off my house, I specifically didn’t invite my parents).

I told my mom that if her and my dad try to move in with me after pissing away their retirement savings I’m going to put them in a discount government ran nursing home that’s recently been in the news.

14.  My parents struggled with infertility and miscarriages before finally having my older brother.

Their little miracle rainbow baby could do no wrong. My parents bailed him out of every situation he got himself into with absolutely no consequences. My moms reasoning was, he just tunes you out if you yell at him. So they never really disciplined him.

Eventually he bankrupted them. They gave him money to fix every problem and then he’d get himself into another. Stole money from them. My dad cosigned for his truck and my brother stopped paying the loan and it fell to my parents. They got so behind they almost lost their farm.

And me, the other kid. Oh yeah I fixed that for them. Got them out of their financial hole, made sure they didn’t lose their farm…the farm they recently wrote into their will that my brother gets when they die.

15.  My sister became a terrible human being and she is the only one to talk to my mom, mostly for free baby sitting.

Before I went no contact with both, my mom was always complaining how mean my sister was to her and my sister would talk about how much she hated my mom. They deserve each other.

16.  Husband’s sister is the golden child.

It bit his father in the a*s when she borrowed $200k to open a business and then became disinterested so it died, they are not wealthy and it f****d them financially for abt 10 years.

Don’t worry though, as soon as FIL recovered financially he bought her a house because she *can’t hold a job*

This life exercise has made super clear that sister will physically be taking care of them as they become feeble though, so win-win as far as we’re concerned.

17.  My sister became an alcoholic and a d**g a****t.

I think the moment that really smacked my mom in the face was that when her mom died, she gave me nothing and my sister her pick of the family jewelry because “that kind of stuff means something to your sister.” My sister pawned it all, then ran off to be homeless so she could indulge her a*******n without criticism. She has been in and out of prison for the last decade, which was the only time we knew for sure she was alive.

But hey, she’s clean now. It will be different this time, my mother assures me, while sending her money and valuables like a laptop and brand new smartphone. I’m sure that’s not going to end in tears…

18.  My brother is the favourite one because he’s white skinned and more good looking.

Typical asian thingy, if you must. I was also slow in development and in middle school, tested my IQ to be 80, so they kind of see me as a shame. I am a very late bloomer. My grandparents and parents prefers him. This is about my grandparents.

Being the more financially successful one while my brother struggles to find a job, I am responsible for putting the meals at the table. It’s somewhat their fault that he’s overly spoiled and lazy. Now, they are very conscious of their bad treatment in my younger days, so they are very careful not to offend me.

Once they pushed to make me send my brother to college so he can get a degree to get a job (I do not have a degree), I told them they can start asking him to pay for their living expenses because I am not shy not leave them homeless. I did so with my mother. She begged me to help her financially because she got dumped with a child by her new husband and I closed the door on her. I honestly have zero attachment to them due to the abuse they did when I was young, including locking me up in a room so I can get better.

They are kind of offish and afraid of me. I know they hate me but they can never say it and they are civil around me. Anytime there is a disagreement, I’ll tell them to get my brother to start supporting them. It’s mostly no argument and they will begrudgingly agree with everything I say even if it’s against what they believe.

Some may say it’s financial abuse. But I am not abusing them. They are always free to leave. I have no obligation to take care of them but that’s what I do. And if they can’t appreciate that, then they can always go to their more favoured child.

19.  The golden child/scapegoat situation in my family was interesting.

I had two cousins who were siblings. One had severe ADHD and often acted out. Their older sibling competed in dance competitions internationally and did very well in school, earning scholarships to this top school. Older kid was the priority with the parents investing in their success while the younger kid was constantly asked “why can’t you be more like Perfect Kid?”

Younger sibling struggled in high school but graduated. After graduation, they flourished. Got a construction job and worked up. Meanwhile, the older sibling graduated college and it took them a year to find a job. Having never faced adversity, this took a mental toll on them, especially when they had to ask the younger sibling for help.

All of us in the extended family could see this coming a mile away. And the favoritism even trickled down the cousins. My grandmother knew I’d also had trouble finding a job after college but told me that my cousin was “fragile” about not finding a job, and then ranted about how someone so perfect couldn’t find one. Meanwhile, the kid everyone yelled at all the time had been working continually since age 18 and became a homeowner in his late 20s.

20.  My mother was a narcissist and delusional. She pulled my sister into being the adult of the family by the time she was 12.

She had to protect her and listen to all of her crazy stories about how everyone was out to get her. But my sister could do no wrong. She was the perfect golden child of the family. So, she never connected the dots that my mom was seriously mentally ill.

When my mom died, my sister had a nervous breakdown once all of the ongoing stress let off, decided she had lead poisoning from paint and that she was allergic to everything on earth. She got to the point where all she would eat is baby food and had hysterical blindness. She went to 52 different doctors and finally found some quack who charged her over $100,000 for chelation.

21.  I was the golden child, but not in the way you’d expect.

I was doted on because of my looks, and my mom would pimp me out to TV stations or modeling agencies at a shot to becoming famous and escaping poverty in the Philippines. This went on for YEARS of my childhood. This backfired and I’m now a huge punk/tomboy. My sister resented me for it so she turned to her studies as a way to get my mom’s attention.

And guess what? Now *she’s* the golden child. Good career, great husband, lots of money to shower. I’m living an incredibly simple life, living it on my own terms, and she takes any opportunity she can get to criticize what I do under the guise of me possibly hurting our mom. Did I turn out f****d up? Maybe, yeah. I stay home, smoke w**d, play video games, get tattoos. But I never want to hurt anybody, ever. Funny how me reclaiming my life after years under the microscope still bites me in the a*s.

22.  He got arrested for beating up a homeless person.

Not his first time beating up a homeless person, just first time a cop saw him do it.

He’s a sociopath. But boy is he a good rock climber! And that’s all my parents ever cared about this 40 year old trust fund baby.

23. The golden child is the only one of my mother’s children that is speaking to her regularly.

He lives in the same city as her while my other sibling and I are thousands of miles away. As her health starts to decline, golden child will be the only one available to help. He likely won’t move away because he feels like he can’t leave her alone.

I was slated to be her caretaker but that is never happening. Good luck to them!

24.  My dad was guilty of seeing my older sister as the golden child.

She was extraverted and outgoing like me dad while I was the quiet introvert. How often I had to hear “why aren’t you more like your sister?”

My dad didn’t give a single f**k about my hobbies either, everything revolved around my sister’s hobbies. I was always the “ugly duckling” of the family, the younger brother who isn’t as successful as his older sister.w She was more career-oriented and has a high paying job and goes on exotic, expensive vacations.

My sister never rubbed it in and is fully aware of this and feels kinda bad about it, but when I announced that I, at 42 years of age, was able to completely pay off the loan to my house thanks to an investment in Bitcoin I made in 2016, all of a sudden, I wasn’t the “unsuccessful ugly duckling” anymore.

I know money and material possessions aren’t the most important thing in life, but to my father apparently, it is kind of a way to measure success. And I beat everyone at it. By just investing a couple of thousand of euro’s I saved by just not going on vacation but simply staying home in 2016.

25.  Golden child in my family wasn’t a sibling but rather a cousin.

Cousin is 3-4 years older than me. His parents werent great role models for various reasons, so he was in and out of foster care, etc. My parents tried to adopt him, blah blah blah.

When I was 16, his parents dropped him at our door to live with us for several months. While he was with us, he could do no wrong. He would verbally and physically a*****t me, he was on all kinds of d***s, so on so forth.

He never got a high school degree, etc. His entire life, he has blamed his childhood or everyone around him for everything wrong.

Most of my extended family has cut him completely off, except for my dad. Most of us will refuse to go to any family event he is invited to, because he’s violent, angry, and d**g-addled. He has tried to end my life.

Last I heard, he was in prison and got himself viciously attacked to the point of hospitalization because he couldn’t shut his d**n mouth.

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If we stop and think about it, we realize that even the most unsavoury, rude or entitled characters in the world are bound to have some family around. Though we would not want to associate with a stranger who gives us the ‘ick’ or makes us feel uncomfortable because of unacceptable behaviours, what would the situation be if it were a relative? How would the situation play out if that person was a cousin, an uncle or a grandparent? After all, it does happen to many innocent parties that someone they share blood with can say or do highly questionable things.

We were all gathered around the dinner table. My 1 year old daughter was sucking on a corn on the cob and my boomer father saw her and said she’ll make a man very happy one day. It was quiet for a second and I told him to stop sexualizing my infant child. He quit drinking shortly after that but I still keep an eye on him and he isn’t left alone with my children.

My alcoholic uncle at my 12th birthday party: “You grew up real nice. If we’re ever alone I’ll take it as a yes.”

I had no clue what he meant until I was older.

My mom would always remind us before big family gatherings “Don’t go sit on Uncle Vern’s lap. Don’t be alone with him either. He has a history”

As a kid I was like wow that’s kinda scary. As an adult with kids my question is “Why the f**k was this dude invited back?”.

After my twins passed away (shortly after birth), my sister said, “It’s a good thing they died when they did, so you didn’t get too attached.”.

My grandfather told me not to dance at a wedding because I might “tempt” the men. I was 13.

My stepbrother and his wife were visiting my bio father and stepmom, while I was temporarily living with them. Their baby wasn’t too happy about being in a strange place with strangers, but somehow me and the kiddo hit it off. So I would often wake up when they asked me to take him during the night when he was fussy, babysat, etc. I adored it.

My bio father was “helping” me babysit, then suddenly his mood changed and he looked down at the baby, roughly pushed him over. I managed to grab the baby before he fell off the bed. Meanwhile, my bio father was chuckling and said “what are (his parents) going to do about it? They are staying in my home and financially dependent on me.” He then made a faint like he was going to smack the baby in my arms, then walked away.

I left a few weeks later and haven’t spoken to him in 30+ years now.

My youngest son was about 4 and playing by himself. After a bit i realized he was talking to someone or pretending to. I asked him who he was playing with and he said “an old man.” I asked him what the old man’s name was and what he was doing and he said “grandpa and he’s walking with his cane.”

My kids call my dad “Papa” so it was weird to me, and my husbands father they called Papa Launery. I asked him who is grandpa, what does he look like? And my son says “my grandpa, he has a red shirt and brown pants.”

It creeped me out but I didn’t think too much about it. I posted on my facebook page about the interaction and my grandmother posted a picture of my great grandfather who I never met in an old family photo, wearing a red shirt and brown pants. He had a prosthetic leg from the war so he walked with a cane. Id never seen that photo before and my son certainly never had either. My family is convinced he was visiting to say hello. Still the creepiest thing my kid has ever said.

When my cousin was 14, my uncle (her father) said her first boyfriend would be very lucky to have her as a girlfriend. I agreed, saying she was becoming a wonderful young woman. My uncle looks me in my eyes and says “yeah, but he’d also get a go on her fantastic t**s”
Guess which uncle is never going to see my daughter (who is now a teenager).

My grandpa asked me if I was going to breastfeed when I was pregnant. I said I was absolutely going to try. He then gave one of my b**bs a little jiggle and said “With these little things? Good luck!”

I was left with my jaw on the floor.

I was going through a divorce, I was staying with my sister. I was sleeping on the floor in her spare room.
I woke up and she was standing over me with a knife in her hand.

She said: “IT awakes!”

I replied: WHAT?! What is going on?

She blinked and turned and walked away.

I began to look for a different place to stay after I locked the room’s door and stayed up for the rest of the night.

She struggles with paranoid schizophrenia.

My grandpa said he’d marry me if I wasn’t his granddaughter.

Said I n front of my future husband the weekend of our wedding.

He was my cousin. He found me on yahoo messenger. He said he was distancing himself from his side of the family. We would chat about once a week. A couple months in, he invited me to visit. I turned him down because I was broke. He said I could share his bed. I was just “wha?”

He then went into a spiel about we could move to Kentucky, he had researched it and cousins having sex was legal.

I just said “ew” and blocked him and deleted messenger

I refuse to ever attend anything he would be at.

My mom told me recently when I was ill that if I died, her neighbors would bring her free meals for a couple of weeks. She genuinely thought that sounded exciting and like an outcome she was hoping for.

I had an uncle buy me silk underwear for my 16th birthday and when I opened it said “you should try it on right now”.

We adopted a baby from China 20 yrs ago. When I casually mentioned how my husband was in love with her, his uncle said, “just make sure he doesn’t love her TOO much.” This was around when people were still commenting on Woody Allen running off with Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter. It was a pretty gross thing to say about a toddler. And my husband.

– “no one will ever love you”
– “I’m going to set fire to the house with us in it”
– “if you tell anyone, social services will take you away and put you in a children’s home where they’ll hurt you really badly”
– “drink the poison kid”

Take your pick.

My dad once said to me, “If I could get you to eat half as much as you do, and your sister to eat half as much as you do, I’d have two perfect daughters”. Thanks, Dad. .

First girl I ever brought home (that I was interested in) when I was 13… my dad comes home from work, before I can even introduce them to each other, my dad says, “So, have you two had s*x yet?”

I was mortified.

She left.

My dad didn’t meet another one of my “girlfriends” until I was in my mid 20s, and my GF and I rented a place together.

When my son was three, his mom had to send him to a timeout for some reason. He didn’t want to and threw a fit, so I reiterated he had to go and be by himself til he could behave. He started storming away, then turned, walked close to me, and hissed- actual hiss, like a villain- “They’ll never find you.”

He’s 12 now and he doesn’t remember it. But when I told him about it he just nodded and said “Yeah, that sounds like something I would say.”.

My half older brother is about 25 years older than me and obviously, we didn’t grow up together. Never were close. But he once sent me a FB message to share a fond memory with me —

Apparently when I was 3-4 I had a dress with matching bloomers to cover my diaper. He said I’d laugh and giggle, looking at him while rolling around as if I “wanted him to look at my bloomers” in *that* fashion.

I blocked him and never looked back. I feel gross just typing this.

Once at a family birthday party, my FIL told his 15-year-old daughter “You’re the sexiest woman here.”.

I used to have a horrible recurring dream about an alien abduction while camping. Sometimes I would wake up in a light sweat, sometimes I’d jump out of bed into the corner of the room until I came to my senses.

No, I am not an abductee. It’s just a bad nightmare.

So…. My kid brother used to wake up and come to my room in the middle of the night to sleep there. One night I wake up from that nightmare and he’s just standing there at the edge of my bed.

I nearly jumped out of my skin.

He looks right through me and says, “they’re coming for you too”. Then he turned and walked back to his room.
I didn’t go back to sleep that night.

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Thanks to the internet, people have been sharing their most fascinating pareidolia encounters, and we’ve gathered 30 of the most intriguing ones that might make you look twice (or thrice

This Buff-Tip Moth Disguised As Birch Wood

This Flower Looks Like Icing

My Cat Looks Like A Lemur

I Visited Vulcan, Alberta And All Their Streetlights Are Shaped Like The Starship Enterprise

Found A Caterpillar That Looks Like A Leaf

I Found A Rock On A Beach That Looks Like A Beach On A Rock

This Gekko In Madagascar That Looks Like A Wilted Leaf

Found A Really Cool Stick Looks Like A Good Wizard Staff

I Found Something At The Beach That Looks Like A Real Life Topographical Map

There’s A Bubble Under My Glass That Looks Like A Pool Of Mercury

Bruise On Back Of My Leg Looks Like The Monster Logo

My Hair Looks Like It’s Been Caught In A Zipper/ Fits In Between Gears

The Dog I’m Sitting Looks Like Scooby Doo

This Mushroom That Looks Like A Glove Punching Through My Planter

This Leaf Has Flower Tattoos

A Seastar Growing Back 4 Arms Looks Like A Shooting Star

Match I Burned Turned Into A Microphone With A Stand

Southern Los Angeles Looks Like A Computer Motherboard

This Pine Wood Has An Arrow Pointing To What Was The Center Of The Tree

I Spilled Diet Coke Under My Desk At Work And The Bubbles Formed A Lowercase E

Found A Stick That Looks Like A Wizard Staff

I Thought The Roots Of This Dead Orchid Look Kind Of Like A Facehugger

I Have The Shape And Texture Of A Feather At The Bottom Of My Iris

This Butterfly Looks Like A Leaf

Accidentally Made My Eggs Like This, Looks Like A Tree With Oranges

Found These Rusty Pliers In The Yard, Looks Like Wood

This Spider That Looks Like A Ritz

Nice Leaf

My Pancake Looked Like A Brain

This Portal Crane, That Looks Like An At-At

This Carrot Looks Like Those S Designs We All Used To Draw In Middle School

Refilled Soap Dispenser Resulted In Overnight Fungi Shape

This Rotten Melon Looks Like A Colorblindness Test

This Whole Bag Of Chocolate Chips Looks Like Tiny Sherlock Pipes

My Son Took A Picture Of A Cloud That Looks Like A Fighter Jet

Moisturizer Came Out Looking Like A Tiny Leaf

A Hot Pepper Shaped Like Fire

This Tree That Looks Like A Whisk

My Mayo Looks Like The Sorting Hat From Harry Potter

The Frost I Scraped Off My Car Looks Like Fabric

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Meanwhile, the viral and disastrous Glasgow W. Wonka experience seems to have avoided these couples and their kids. Recent photos of the green-haired worker show a much happier and engaged demeanor. Additionally, memes for various experiences, including a London Paddington Bear one, are making the rounds. Dive into this edition of Tuesday morning randomness for more quirky content!

Navalny’s grave 2 days after the funerals.

A teacher teaches the physics of surfing -1970.

Identical twin brothers Jeremy and Josh married identical twin sisters Briana and Britanny.

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