We've all been in an unfortunate situation when something we didn't mean to say accidentally slips out in conversation.
Resulting in our inadvertently sharing an embarrassing experience or a memory we continue to try to forget.
Most of the time, all we can do is laugh about it.
Sometimes, however, the information we share or learn is no laughing matter.
Redditor Creeper_awMan4 was eager to hear the most disturbing information they'd ever heard slip out casually in conversations, leading them to ask:
"What is the most disturbing thing you've heard said casually?"
Ce n'est pas magnifique...
"'I mean yeah, I eat slugs'."
"'They're like escargot without the shell'."
"He was in the hospital I was in for liver flukes."- FunkyWolfyPunky
Not The First Thing You Want To Hear... Literally...
"I was coming to after surgery and heard one woman ask, 'What’s she in here for?' (about me) and another woman said, 'She must be dying. I think everyone on this wing is'.”
"I’d just had gallbladder surgery, but showed nurses I could walk and that I was able to pee in record time, so I could get out of there."- FrancescaMcG
We Take For Granted How Nice It Is To Be Noticed...
"Someone once said, 'If I went missing, I think it would take days for anyone to notice'."
"They laughed, but it hit me hard—like, how many people feel that way?"- OldDistance3979
Sense Memory
"Listening to my American grandpa just causally drop horrific things he saw when he fought in WW2 at random."
"Like, you ask him about farm life, and he will drop this on you:"
"'I hate open pastures...'"
"'I remember one time I saw two Sherman tanks get blown to hell about a hundred yards out and I saw the tank commander jump out on fire only for the Germans to cut him down...'"
"'Anyway that's why I hate open fields'."- Cheetodude625
Anatomy Y'all
“After having my baby boy, they had to reconstruct my a**hole”- itsshanesmith
Taking Matters Into Her Own Hands...
"I struck up a conversation with a pregnant lady at work and said, 'So how stoked is the baby daddy?' and she replied in a matter-of-fact kinda way, 'he was taking too long to decide, so I just stopped taking birth control and didn't tell him'...
"'I was like ohh so he's surprised'."- spacemantrip
Rude Awakening Incoming...
"Not necessarily disturbing, but my 18-year-old (adopted) daughter totaled her car right after buying it for $8,000 above what it was worth at a shady lot."
"Her birth mom took her here. I had nothing to do with the purchase."
"She was driving with no license or insurance."
"Right after she totaled it, she said, 'Well, at least I don't have to pay those payments anymore'."
"She thought because it was totaled, the debt went away."- dudeman-dudeman
Leading By Example...
"I use to work in criminal defense and was sitting in a private room at my county’s courthouse that’s also home to the capitol city."
"There were attorneys, DAs, clerks, and cops in the room, and we were all just chatting."
"Then a police officer is talking about something he’d done over the weekend, and a DA told him that’s illegal."
"The cop said: 'I’m here to enforce the law, not obey it'.”
"I just raised my eyebrows like 'whoa wtf' and everyone."
"EVERYONE else cackled their fucking a**es off."
"It felt so surreal and like I’d gone insane."
"I don’t work in law anymore."- FrankAdamGabe
SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?
"From a surprised recruiter during a first face-to-face meeting: 'Oh! You didn't sound black on the phone!'"- Grimdotdotdot
Disturbing Seems Like An Understatement
"When I started college back when I lived in Tennessee, I was hanging out in the cafe with some of the older students I had met in the orientation program."
"I excused myself to go to the restroom, when they told me that, no, I shouldn’t use that one- it was dirty because it was the one for (and then he said a racial slur)."
"The one for 'folks like us' was on the other side."
'It’s amazing the sh*t people will just out and say if they think you’re in the group."
'Suffice it to say, I found better friends elsewhere."- Nerevarine91
What Matters Is, She Finished Dinner
"A coworker was telling me about her trip to the store the day before, how she got all her groceries, ran her husband over in the driveway, and made a fabulous eggplant Parmesan for dinner."
"And then said, 'oh my break is over.”- Gay_Stoner_
LEAVE THE DOGS ALONE!!!
"A guy threw a ball for my dog."
"As my dog brought it back he said '... isn't it strange that they killed all the dogs that didn't do this?'"
"Like he had some incredibly astute philosophical thought or something."
"HTF DO YOU THINK DOG BREEDING WORKS?????"
"Also one day a neighbors super old dog wandered down."
"Sweet boy."
"I brought him back home."
"He said a maybe I shouldn't have done that because the dog is old, at the end of his life, and it might be better that he gets hit by a car."
"Nature and all."
"F*ck you Jason."- tenacioussliver
Some people are better at keeping secrets than others.
More often than not, those people might share secrets that we wish they hadn't.
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