35 ‘It’s Not What It Looks Like’ Situations

‘I submitted an expense claim for an inflatable doll’
35 ‘It’s Not What It Looks Like’ Situations

We’ve all been caught in compromising situations, but occasionally, these situations lack context and aren’t at all how they look.  

Case in point: A Redditor was walking down the street with his wife, and they accidentally bumped hips. Laughing and making a game of it, they kept knocking hips with each other as they continued walking, until he knocked his wife hard enough that she fell over. Unfortunately, a police car turned onto the street just as he’d achieved his “final victory” in the hip-bumping competition. The officer got out of his car to assess what was happening, which made the Redditor’s wife fall to the ground laughing at the absurdity of the situation. After the two explained what actually transpired, the police moved on.

Other Redditors have shared the times they’ve had to quickly explain themselves out of a bind, including one guy who made a late-night shopping trip for a seemingly kinky combination of items.

Positive-Vase-Flower 4y ago One of my friends is a dermatologist and I asked him to take a look at a birthmark on my lower back. It was at a rainy BBQ and we went to the bathroom for better lighting. I pulled my summer dress up and bent a bit over the sink so I did not throw any shadows to the region around the birthmark. In this moment another friend opened the door. She made a weird noise and closed the door immediately. It took us a few seconds to understand why she reacted so weirdly. - Share 2.3K
ironcladtrash 4y ago My son was in a dog kennel in my kitchen with the door shut when my dad walked into my house. My son was probably around 2 at the time. I was doing the dishes and he put himself in there and shut the door. Не could get out by himself, he was just playing. 905 Share ...
Marawal 4y ago Well, I'm a woman working I.T. Most towers are under desks. My boss is a man. So, one day, his mouse stopped working, and I needed to replace it. I go under the desk to do just that, while he continued signing some papers or another. Someone walked in as I was under. I got out, and I'm sure that the guy did not believe that I was I.T. and I was just changing a mouse. 1.1K Share ...
 4y ago Me and my cousin were tasked with throwing away a shitty worn old carpet. Because of how dusty and dirty it was we had to wrap it in black bin bags, let's just say we had a long conversation with the Buckinghamshire county police 3.8K Share ...
NoMickeyMouseBusines 4y ago Invited my friend on a hike, needed to get my bottle from the trunk. Forgot that I had to move some painting supplies earlier. The face when your tracksuit-wearing Eastern European friend open a trunk lined with garbage bags and rolls plastic wrap and a hatchet in the middle of woods was priceless but do not recommend. Hard to argue is no problem, just had to move messy things, do not worry. - 14K Share ...
Faduuba 4y ago Edited 4y ago A co-worker hit my vehicle and rather than go through insurance, I gave him an option to pay in cash to avoid an insurance hit. A couple days later he was paying me in the parking lot at night (night shift workers) and the manager comes out of the office and heads to his car. Came over to see wtf was going on. Totally looked like a drug deal was going down. lol - Share 14K ...
tinkrman 4y ago - Edited 4y ago I brought a hammer to the office to hang a whiteboard. I left it in my laptop bag, and forgot to take it out at home. Days later my boss came up behind me asked do we have a hammer in the office?. Without thinking, I reached into my bag and and handed him the hammer, still looking at the computer screen. A few seconds later I realized my boss was still standing behind me. I turned around and, he was just standing there staring at the hammer. Не said seriously?......you carry a
PitatoShoes 4y ago A few years ago, I was walking my dogs and they spotted a squirrel and yanked me off my feet. My glasses broke in the fall, | hit my face and scraped my hand quite badly. Cut to a few days later. God knows why but the wounds have swollen, most of my face is covered in bruises and one eye is black. I went with my brother to the gun range; it was a previously-planned trip but I can only imagine what the owners thought, seeing a battered-up woman come learn to shoot. - 4.8K Share
CaliCloudz 4y ago I made a late night supermarket purchase of coconut oil, AA batteries and condoms. The checker laughed and I realized that combo of items looked pretty kinky. In reality I needed the batteries for an Xbox controller. My girlfriend needed the coconut oil for cooking. And you can guess what our roommate needed the rubbers for. - 2.4K Share ...
Pharm-Poet 4y ago Edited 4y ago When | was 16 my boyfriend's (now husband's) parents took me on a beach vacation with them. His dad was kind enough to carry my luggage to my room and his face was bright red. | just thought he was hot. But my boyfriend came in and goes soo.. my dad says your luggage is vibrating. I had one of those handheld face washing devices that you put a little makeup remover pad on in my bag and it had turned on. His poor dad thought I had brought a vibrator, so I actually
appocomaster 4y ago my manager was working in the office one weekend and had bad eczema. As no one was around he dropped his jeans and started going to town on his thighs. A cleaning lady walked in, took one look at him and walked out again. What makes it worse is on the Monday, his manager wanted to speak to him about a completely unrelated sensitive issue - he thought he was getting fired - 7.6K Share ...
Soft-Problem 4y ago When I was visiting my home town, I drove past our old childhood home where I'd grown up. Decided to take some photos of the house for nostalgia's sake. There were a few little kids playing in the front. Perfect: the house is still filled with children's laughter and all that good stuff. Take out my camera: cue an angry bald man rushing out of the house screaming at me for taking photos of his kids, kids bawling, me driving away in a hurry without stopping to explain. Share 4.5K ...
 f 4y ago When I submitted an expense claim for an inflatable doll. NOT a blow up doll, an inflatable person. It was many years ago in the NHS and we were using it in meetings to demonstrate convoluted patient journeys so we could eliminate waste and simplify things. My boss had a sense of humour. - 13K Share ...
zcmini 4y ago In high school, borrowed my parent's van to take my gf on a date. We went out for dinner and then to a friend's for a bonfire. she changed in the van from a skirt/tights to sweatpants in between. Next day my dad pulls me a side and he's holding her tights. | start saying, it's not what it looks like but he cuts me off and just goes on about I want to make sure you guys are being safe don't worry I won't tell your mother etc. - 14K Share ...
 7y ago When I was like 14, I wanted to work out but couldn't go to a gym or run outside or anything. For some reason I thought it would be good to use a can of green beans as a weight. I kept the can in my sock drawer because I didn't want to go to the kitchen every time I wanted to lift weights. One day I come home from school and my mother is standing at the doorway to my bedroom with a look in her face. She is holding the can of green beans and
Darniella 7y ago I visited my grandmother and she asked me to clean out my old closet (I lived there for 2 or 3 years and left some stuff). So I was going through my old notebooks, clothes and random shit when I came across some incense sticks. I decided to burn one. It didn't smell that great and made a lot of smoke, so I went to open a window. At that moment granny came in because she could smell it from the corridor. | still don't know why I panicked and said I couldn't smell anything. I was
rex1991 7y ago A few years ago a friend was round my house and we were watching this TV show called 'Rude Tube' basically its a show that counts down 50 best youtube videos in a different category. one episode it will be all to do with animals, the next it would be big fails etc. I can't remember what the type of episode this one was but one of the YouTube videos was a series of middle aged me in tighty whiteys dancing around. It just so happened that my sister walks in the room when these half naked
 7y ago I was 16 when this happened. My friends were skype calling at 2 AM (it was not a video call so we could not see each other), I had just gotten out of the shower and could not find my clothes. I just joined the skype call naked and was talking to them normally. My dad then walks in because I had forgotten to lock my door and sees me naked, by my computer, and talking to guys. I tried to explain myself and when I told him that it was just a skype call, he thought
anomalous_cowherd 4y ago Edited 4y ago I was walking along one night with my wife and we bumped hips accidentally. I bumped her again, she bumped me back harder and it escalated from there. For my final victory I timed it just right to knock her into a lamppost so she fell over, laughing. Whoop whoop a Police car had come up behind us and only seen the killing blow. She instantly started laughing so hard at the absurdity of it that tears were streaming down her face and they grabbed me to stop me attacking her any more (I
Ok_Display_5985 8mo ago I talk to myself all the time, like, ALL THE TIME. Helps me process my thoughts (or keep myself company). Most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it until I'm in the grocery aisle and some poor old women wants her beans and here's me, full blown self conversation mode, probably scaring the shit out of her lol. I've accepted that I will forever receive weird looks in public, and I have A LOT of I swear I'm not crazy stories 383 Share ...
cantsleep6811 8mo ago There's a brand called lonely ghost and it has attire that often say call me if you're lonely or text me and it has an actual number My friend had the hoodie with the phone number on it and we were bored and wanted to see what actually happened. I texted the number I'm lonely it gave a cute little auto reassurance response and a gif or something. Anyways, boyfriend at the time saw the text to an unsaved random number saying I'm lonely Had to pull up the hoodie with the number haha. 584 Share ...
Ordinary_Shallot_674 8mo ago Moving house and my father-in-law was helping on moving day. My wife and I were well-prepared, with only our bed remaining assembled and everything else packed and ready to go. I lifted the mattress and had to clumsily explain to my wife's dad that all of the straps on the bed frame were just to hold the fitted sheet in place. 392 Share ...
Malthus1 8mo ago I was staying over at a friend's cottage in the country with my girlfriend (now wife). A bunch of my friends were there as well, male and female, but we got the spare bedroom because we were a couple. We all went to bed - after about twenty minutes, the bed we were in collapsed, making a terrible clatter. Instantly, the whole house erupted in cheers and laughter. Reality: bed was very rickety, no one had actually slept in it for a long time, and we were just peacefully resting in the bed when it just collapsed. But of
8mo ago EpicMindvolt I had just got back to my college dorm from work where I had spilled quite a bit of lemonade on myself, and I checked in my gf when I got back. When we got in my room, she dropped something (I think maybe her chapstick, but can't remember) behind my mini fridge and was bent over to try and find it. I was taking my lemonade soaked pants off and was planning to change into something clean when my brother (who was my roommate at the time) walked in. Не still makes jokes about that from
Masenko-ha 8mo ago Found my then girlfriend's panties in the laundry at my house and packed em in my book bag to give back to her. Brought them with me next time I visited and of course they weren't hers. Thing is I didn't cheat and they definitely didn't fit anyone else I would've known in recent memory (we weren't exclusive more than a couple weeks at that point). She kinda just hit me with a palm face and an eye roll and we never talked about it again /laughed it off in the moment. I still don't know where
gettinghairy 8mo ago Owned a horse as a kid, partner went with me couple months back to visit him at the stable he lived at to visit him. Said horse has a habit of nipping (not out of aggression, to show affection/play). Horse was nuzzling his head onto my chest and bit right by my tit. Gently pushed his head away, but that shit HURT. Went home with partner and was getting undressed for some quality time. Не took a look at me and went, what's that? I look down and there was a giant forming bruise/bite from where the
skummelgutt e 8mo ago . Edited 8mo ago Assisted teacher in getting books. She fell off the stool and I dropped the books to use myself as a cushion. She wasn't on top on top but it looked strange from an angle. Another teacher was laughing and watching. I was red.
 8mo ago In Mexico City on a high school trip I went to sleep alone and woke up with one of the girls from the trip. She looked confused. I looked confused. We both clarified that we did not, in fact, do it (this was me confirming for her). What we decided was that she got super drunk the night before, came into our room instead of hers, and got in bed with me thinking I was her sister. 1K Share ...
suncirca 8mo ago My mom once barged on my room without knocking with a shocked face and asking what are you doing?! I was laying in bed, laptop on my belly, chocolate on my mouth watching YouTube exercise videos. They kept making noises she assumed was either sex or porn. To this day we laugh so hard about it - 1.9K Share ...
NamaNamaNamaBatman 8mo ago I worked in a supermarket when I was younger and my boss found me one day lying on my stomach in the aisle with my arm fully outstretched holding a large jar of pickles. This was long before planking but he still thought was something being done for the lolz and started chewing me out before a customer intervened and explained the situation. The fact of the matter was I was walking down the aisle when out of nowhere the jar just slipped off the shelf and I dove and caught it. That lady saved my ass
...... tbama11 E 8mo ago 00 Spider in my car got me pulled over for swerving all over the road. We found it and the cop just laughed at me. I'm not scared of spiders, but that big fucker was dangling in my face 3.1K Share ...
jennyvane 8mo ago | was a lab tech working at a pharmaceutical research lab, and we ran out of pregnancy tests. | went to Walgreens to buy some home tests, and | needed 5 of them. I was about 8 months pregnant. - 21K Share ...
Bonkboyo e 8mo ago According to my mom she peeked through my open door and saw me in my chair, hands at waist level, shaking a bit as I worked my hands and was breathing heavily. | was playing Spider-Man 2 fighting Scream. 1.3K Share ...
Lostandfoundchampion 8mo ago My personnel clerk was telling me about a sexual harassment issue in my office, as soon as she repeated what was said, are you asking me for a blowjob, the store gossip walked by and sure enough I'm being spoken to by corporate HR within the hour. Thankfully | had proof of what was actually going on. - 5.3K Share ...
Winningest-7 . 4y ago | sneezed while folding laundry. My wife walked into the room and found me with a pair of her panties up to my face. 513 Share ...

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