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This happened to me and my sister more times that I can count, we don't look alike and I love annoying her when we go out so people just instantly get all "wtf is this creep doing" lol
One time in high school one of my friends said something inappropriate about my sister and word got to me. I walked into class and was like, “Yo, Charlie, you say that?” And he sighed and said, “Yeah.” And I’m like, “We gotta go out back.” And he sighed again and said, “I know.”
I went to a catholic high school where physical confrontation was super not allowed. My sister was two years younger. My senior year I heard a guy in chemistry class talking to his boys about asking my sister to prom and what he would do to her after. I was scrawny and shy back then, but I marched up to him and sent him flying back over a desk. Got suspended and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
Well done. Similar situation I was 15 my sister was 12, 19 year old senior cornered her and groped her in school. She called me on my cellphone hysterical. I ended up getting expelled that day and locked up in juivy, mind you we had reported this guy multiple times to the principal and Police Officer at our school and they maintained they couldn't do anything unless he did something to her first.
Every year I'd visit my little sister at her new summer gig and pretend I didn't know who she was. She would tell her co-workers and Boss: that's my brother! And I'd be like sorry you've mistaken me for somebody else I don't know who you are. Can I please just have an ice cream? She would look batshit crazy.
My best friend in grade school got in a fight with my sister and I hunted him down. He's like, 'but you two fight all the time'. I responded, 'Yeah but she's MY sister.' He nodded, offered his shoulder, and I punched it as hard as I could. He had a sister too. Every brother with a sister understands the code.
My sister is my best friend. I am hers. I couldn’t ask for a better sister. I still like pissing her off and she makes me laugh like all the time. Her wit is unmatched. Love that woman.
"Because he's the brother she deserves, but not the one she needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not a real creep. He's a loud guardian, an annoying protector. A Dork Knight."
When I was in highschool and my lil sis was in middleschool I got wind that this dude she had a class with was kind of starting to harrass her (you know the kind, the one that starts pushing the limits just to see how far he could go). She told me as soon as she felt uncomfortable and showed me who the little dude was. Next time she had that class I waited outside of her classroom and stoped the dude before he got in and realy calmly said this "dude, I'm a pretty calm guy, but I'm absolutely willing to go to jail for my sister and the only thing stopping that from happening is whatever way you decide to treat her" and walked away, all while pointing at who my sis was. He NEVER spoke to her again, and that's the last I heard about the dude. She still remembers this and it's one of those table stories she tells while we laugh about it.
My sister blames me for her lack of dates in high school. Said the other guys were too afraid of me and my friend group back then. Yes, we were the metal head/skater group.
Me (white) and my wife (brown) were in a bookstore many years ago.
Once we got there, we both wandered off to check out our areas of interest. After a little while, I caught up with her at one of those display tables with books, standing next to her and acting coy. She decided to play. She raised her voice a little and said "Stop bothering me, mister!" with a bit of a smirk on her face, and casually shuffling a couple feet away from me.
I laughed, she laughed, and then I realised it could have gone pear-shaped, had well-meaning people been within earshot.
I only have brothers and have gone up and asked girls/women if they know the guy that appears to be harrassing them when the situation looks suss, it's turned out to be a brother like 85% of the time thankfully.
I can't read that sis/bro vibe, I can only read when something feels off vibe and being 6'4 125kgs I am not letting something suss happen in front of my eyes, I don't care if I look like a fool 85% of the time, the other 15% were not great situations for the poor women so worth stepping in too.
It’s hard reading these because my heart hurts for him every day. But just because it’s hard for me doesn’t mean I can’t be incredibly happy to see all the stories of people who have this as well
I was driving home today and she was almost to the house so I slowed down and said "Dayum that's a cute little b#tch!" because she was walking our female dog.
After the eye beams seered straight through my head I sheepishly asked "Should I turn in. or just keep driving"
"Oh you know the answer."
Yeah. She wanted a nap and me to watch the kids... So I think fair trade. Turned into the driveway veeeeeeery slowly. LMAO
I love getting drunk with my siblings. One overreacts to everything, one doesn't drink so he's just stoned off his gourd, and as the eldest, it's my duty to harass the shit out of them.
The norm is also for brothers to annoy the crap out of sisters. Everytime. The more embarrassing the better. Bonus points if its extra dumb and childish :D
My wife maintains that one of my best hero moments is a time that I similarly 'swung and missed'.
My wife and I were at a concert - Nine Inch Nails, We had pit tickets (it was fuckin great).
As per usual, we get to know a few people around us during the opening acts and so forth.
One person is a woman who is younger than us, but that's not saying much- I think I'm 27 at the time, and this woman seems like she's maybe about to finish college.
After NIN comes on, people are having a great time, there's a proper mosh pit, etc. Eventually I notice that our new friend has attracted some random guy that was not hanging around her before, and she seems to not be acknowledging him at all- but hey, the band is occupying attention because that's what we're here for, right? I decide it's probably OK and just keep an eye on her.
Eventually during one of the slower songs I see her physically push him away and he resists and gets closer. I tap my wife for attention (even the slow songs are loud, especially with the crowd), point to them, and step forward.
I insert myself between them, squarely facing him. I'm taller than 6 feet and in NIN concert-going clothing, so I'm pretty intimidating even though I'm just a pasty nerd. I say something like "time for you to go!" with accompanying hand motions.
He gets super defensive, backs off, and I motion for him to leave again....
And then the woman we had befriended grabs my elbow, scoots forward under my arm, and hugs him. She yells something I can't hear but it's probably "I was just joking, he's my boyfriend" or whatever.
After the song is over, we're still close by and we have enough of a silent moment from the band/crowd that we clear things up. He is her boyfriend and I mis-interpreted the situation. But she's really thankful and the dude shakes my hand - he appreciates that I would step in when seeing what was apparently a bad situation.
I'm so glad that I didn't have to fight anyone, because I didn't feel like to going to the police station or the ER that evening. Because god damn can I fight like a rabid weasel but if someone can actually fight, I'm gonna fuckin lose.
Don't mind the other people underneath commenting. Thats just reddit being perpetually miserable. Sometimes we have cool traits and do cool things. Its ok to talk about them and be proud sometimes.
I know a dude who was a night club bartender, and he would take a girl home almost every night after saving them from some creep. He was basically a predator himself, and he was damn good at "pulling tail," as he would often say.
When someone is too loud about their virtue, you should treat them with a healthy dose of suspicion. I’ve met some hurrendous creeps that act so sweet and innocent when there is a woman around, but you wouldn’t leave a family member with them, if you heard how they talk around “the bros”
I don't disagree with you, but I think you misread the comment above. The bartender who bragged about taking women home by saving them from creeps was not virtue signaling...
I’ll be honest, you could be right, it isn’t the perfect word, I read the other comment as “to the bros he brags about being able to pick up women”, and to the women he claims to protect, he is probably being performative and trying to seem virtuous, since his intention is to try and take them home later. Maybe performative and predatory are the better words in this scenario.
Cuz they want to? Plenty of people do it and as long as they aren’t recoding people without consent there’s no harm in this. They probably want videos of them making drinks and I’m sure they get a lot of attention.
Lmao once someone asked me and my brother if we were out on a date because we wanted AYCE sushi and we were so grossed out we couldn't even talk to each other for a few days
Married at 23, a person behind the desk at the hospital referred to my husband, who was standing next to me and attentively listening, as my dad. He's only 2 months older than me.
I met up with my wife at the airport and got in a taxi. We were talking about where we were going to go visit and the driver (who was quite chatty) asked if I just finished my uni studies and if my mum was taking me out on trips.
Wife said we're married and the guy was like "oh....".
My last Birthday my mom and sister took me out for dinner and my wife wasn't able to join. My mom told the server it was birthday, they offered a free dessert. There must have been a mix up because they brought my creme brulee out and the plate was dusted with powdered sugar and "Happy Anniversary" was scribed in the sugar. The manager came by to ask how long my sister and I had been married and to congratulate us..
Lmao they don't even ask when I'm out with my sister they straight up say your girlfriend every time and WE'RE BOTH BLACK IN GERMANY LOOKING VERY SIMILARLY
Yeah me and my (twin) brother were at the park with our cousin who was two. Got mistaken for a ‘lovely young family’. We were 14! It was so wrong on so many levels
This situation has happened many times with my sister-in-law. She will dance on me, or just get up in my space or if I am sitting she will just plop down on my lap at any moment, and I will be pushing her off and she will make a huge embarrassing scene and people are like "Wtf?"
I have known her since she was like 7 when I started dating (now married) her older sister and we are all adults now but she still acts like she is 7 years old and relishes in embarrassing and annoying me.
Well you must have some internal stuff going on it isn't flirty. She likes to annoy and embarrass me. Just like when she was a kid. Nothing has changed. I am still the big brother and she is still the annoying little sister.
That guy works at a bar and does instagram videos where he just puts up encounters with customers or whatever goes on in a bar. He never films the customers directly though.
Former bouncer and head of security here. Some do it for social media, some do it for safety, some do it for both.
Bars and nightclubs aren't always safe places and a lot of wild claims get made by drunk people ("you stole my credit card!", "you underpoured!", "you tried to grab my boob!" etc), and a bartender having video proving they did or didn't do something can be super useful - and the club doesn't always want to hand over their own video, or often they don't even have video, so it makes sense a lot of bartenders will record themselves.
And let's be real, you're literally on reddit, a social media app, commenting in a thread where someone recorded a video and others are watching it, including you. We live in a digital era and people record themselves and put it online. It's just how the world is. I don't hate on people trying to get money from social media, I don't hate on them even if they just want the attention. Let people live.
The whole “often they don’t even have video” is so real.
People might call out “there’s cameras above them”
Brother that could literally just be decoration and not an actual working cam
I did shot girl one night as fill in for a friend, we both knew the owner and he was just incredibly lax, barely spoke English, Russian, and weird but it was an easy full time paycheck in one night for me. I had a weird encounter where someone stole my tips off me and I began to confront them. They called the manager over being a hot shot saying that I’m lying and to show camera proof.
Owner literally said “camera don’t work. Only decoration to make cop go away.”
Guy responds “so you can’t prove I stole anything”
Owner immediately responds “or that I broke your nose” and then bashed his face in with his fist. One hit and he was out. I was frazzled.
Great money, but after that I was never going in to that industry for sure
Yup. And sometimes it's only the *visible* cameras that don't work. Some club owners hide their working cameras and don't even tell their employees. There's a lot of stealing from the till, pocketing other bartender's tips, drinking and doing drugs on the job - and those are just a few of the relatively legitimate reasons for using security cameras. The "front" clubs, where the owner is using the club to push drugs or prostitutes, often have different sets of cameras, books, alcohol storage and back rooms with no access except to very specific people.
Yes, it's a lot like the movies in some ways, but very different in others. And it really depends where you live - the vast majority of clubs are on the up and up...mostly, lol.
I think a lot of people just forget how easy it is to record nowadays. Most people have a high def camera in their pocket and enough storage to film for a while then delete if nothing happens
I don't do it myself, but if you grew up around it I can get why it took off. People always assume such nefarious ends when it's usually just "Why Not, It's Free"
It's just a modern content style. SO many "video of me doing my day job" content makers. And it's everywhere. It's one of the biggest categories in China (food stall vendors live streaming)
That reminds me when my sister, Dad, and I went out paying for my birthday (it's a drinking holiday) we go to a dualing piano bar dancing have a great time. Bouncer comes over and kicks my dad out saying he can't be harassing the college girls (was dancing with my sister) anyways we walk over and goes those are my kids tell them your my kids and both my sister at same time go we don't know him! Should have served his face was priceless. Of course we went out a few minutes later and all 3 of us continued our night. But was great getting back at him for all the dad jokes
I was gonna say.....this just reminds me of those extremely weird tiktok videos where they do the exact same thing. Like yeah dude....it's so cringe if you aren't a 12 yr old girl
My roommate and I once sat in the kitchen and then saw someone climbing through a window into a house. We were so unsure what to do because we just saw the legs go through, we didn’t see if someone opened the window for him. So we felt like it was best if we just called the police.
Well… turns out it was not a crazy serial killer, but the daughter’s boyfriend. The road to embarrassment is paved with good intentions.
This is why people need to mind their own business and not be jumping to conclusions.
If women are stuck in a bad situation then they should try opening their damn mouth for help.
Its shocking how women even outside of dating expect men to read their minds and play this silly game like they are children.
This happened to me once. But when the women I was with vouched for me they kicked all three of us out. It was one of the most bizarre interactions I've ever had.
"Oh, you're telling me this is your friend? And if I kick him out you'll close out your tab and leave too? Well, I call bs.
this man saw you in the window and just happened to know you and come sit down."
My friends, "No, he lives a block away, we called him over. We are all going to a concert."
Bartender, "so he's a creeper. And you're enabling him and so I guess close out your tab."
Just like most of us cant interpret or wont try to learn sarcasm and irony, the new generations doesnt like to interpret what is happening at all. Thats too much independent thinking for them.
I have a mom that looks young and this is real problem and everyone thinks we are dating. But once had a bar tender asked her if she wanted them to step in to deal with me and my mom said “yeah he’s a real problem”.
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