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MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

The Iron Rose posted:

I want to say for a good... sixty percent or so I thought this was a not always random.

If it were a not always random it would have ended with a marine slapping the customer and shouting "I'm a convicted rapist".

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MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

"With any story, there is a setup. This is the setup for this story. This is the beginning of my story. This is the part of the story where I start telling you what happened. This next part is where I end my story, as many stories have endings."

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Khazar-khum posted:

Wasn't this in a movie?

Someone stole my STDH generator??

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
It's still not quite right though. Let me STDH-up that STDH:

quote:

Giving You A (Prison) Break ;) ;)
COFFEE SHOP | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA | AWESOME CUSTOMERS, BAD BEHAVIOR, CRIMINAL/ILLEGAL, FOOD & DRINK

Customer #1: “Thank G**, this line is taking forever, [me]—”

(There is no line at all, although the tables are mostly occupied.)

Me: “I am ever so in your debt, my dear [customer #1], about the wait that you are having in this [coffee shop], sir. May I take your order?”

(The [customer] proceeds to rattle off a long, confusing, and often contradictory [order], including such things as a meatless ham sandwich.)

Me: “Sir, I’m a little confused by your order. Do you mean—”

Customer #1: “—oh for God’s sake, I have to repeat myself now? Were not you paying attention the first time, W****?”

Me: “I am sorry, sir, but I do not want to get anything wrong. You made a big order, and—”

Customer #1: *sighs* “I’ll repeat myself, but just this once. I hate dealing with lazy ignorant dropouts like you, and—”

(He repeats his order *in perfect spanish*, but I understand it even less because I am trying not to cry. He finishes speaking and snaps his fingers at me.)

Customer #1: “Hello?! Punch it in, you dumb b**** W**** F** C***. I haven’t got all day, and—”

(Suddenly one of the other customers; a strongly-built man who has been quietly sitting at a nearby table, roars and leaps to his feet, flipping the table and spilling his coffee in the process.)

Customer #2: “G**-D*** IT! ONE DAY OUT OF PRISON, AND ALREADY I HAVE TO MURDER AN IDIOT IN A COFFEE STORE!”

(The rude customer shrieks and flees from the store. I and the remaining customers stare at the man, who quietly picks up the table and comes over to the counter.)

Customer #2: “I’ll pay for any damage. If you could show me where the mops are, I’ll take care of the mess too. I shall also give you this wondrous golden ring and a sum of money [$100].”

Me: “I-I-I, um…”

Customer #2: “Don’t worry about it, sweetheart. There’s always gonna be an a** like that around.”

Me: “Uh, you, um…”

Customer #2: “Oh, the prison thing?” *laughs* “Never been in jail in my life. So, anyway, where’s that mop?”

The rest of [coffee shop] started slowly clapping. My manager dimmed the lights and put some romantic music on over the PA system.

[Customer #2] approached me and unbuttoned his now soiled shirt, swinging me in for a big kiss. The lady who was next in line said "I'll have what she's having!" and the entire [coffee shop] erupted in laughter. I couldn't literally stop laughing.

He then started to tickle me until I violently told him to stop but it was too late, I wet my pants. [He] said "isn't it your school's prom night tonight?" and then danced with me for several hours.

5 Years later me and [customer #2] are expecting our first [child]. It turned out [customer #2] was the nephew of the lady who was next in line!

GOD BLESS YOU!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Khazar-khum posted:

quote:

Caller: “Awesome. That call went a lot better than I thought it would.”

(He turned out to be a repeat customer.)

... we've now been married 10 years!

Also, did the prank caller double-bluff? they called pretending to be a prank caller (pretending to be a genuine caller) but had a genuine query as to if the video store rented porn?

Also, why would anyone in the last decade even bother renting porn?

Also, why am I bothering to even post about this when this poo poo didn't happen?

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

quote:

(yes folks, I’m a libertarian)

I couldn't make it more than a few paragraphs in. Why did someone take the time to make this up?

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Can't blame the editor for all the junk on NAR:

unfiltered posted:

Customer- Hi (name). My name is *name*

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
GENEROUS LUNCH GIRL | USA | CELEBRITY, LUNCH

I'm a famous celebrity. I am also a furry in this story and have a black belt in karate.

*PHONE RINGS*

*PICKS UP PHONE*

me: "Hello? This is [my name] speaking"

person: "Hello [my name] this is [person's name] I work at [name]. Your child, [name] has been coming to our school without lunch! How dare you be such a negligent parent!"

me: "Excuse me? I am a wonderful mother and always make sure my child, [name] goes to [school] with lunch."

person: "what B*****, you f** ?"

me: "Now if you'll excuse me I shall get to the bottom of this dilemma with by daughter, [name], post-haste!"

*HANGS UP PHONE*

me: "Daughter! Please come here at once!"

daughter: "Yes mama?"

me: "Why haven't you been eating your lunch at school?"

daughter: "Katie's mom is in hospital and hasn't been able to make any meals for her last week, so I gave her a few of my lunches to her. that touched my heart"

me: *fighting back tears* *visibly shaking* "Daughter! you truly are the best daughter a mother like me, your mother [my name], could ever hope to have"

The person later called back and apologised to me and then sent me a voucher for 5% off school fees for the next year!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Postal Parcel posted:

Me: “Our popcorn and soda combo is $14. We gave you the second soda for free, as per the coupon. Without the coupon, the order would’ve been $19.”

2 Drinks and 1 box of popcorn = $19 ?

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Cruel and Unusual posted:

Doesn't he already have her number?

Jesus christ.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Be still my heart. I'm so bad at Word that I can't spell things :(

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

ibntumart posted:

I remember a goon in the previous thread writing a mad lib generator for an NAR story... wish I could find that link or that he/she would do another one.

You might be thinking of my NotAlwaysRandom generator, I think it was an hard drive that failed some time back. I might still have some output somewhere though.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

ibntumart posted:

They truly are.

You're both too kind. Pity that code is long gone now.

Some of this latest STDH is pretty inspiring though, maybe I can knock something better together.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Dave (from across the room): This conversation is highly unlikely, we're seven!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Sounds like a good way to get fired?

and maybe they'd have to hire suits from somewhere else. Wedding day ruined!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
The men swearhouse sounds like a fun place to be.

To be honest I didn't even realise how terribly written it was until you pointed it out. I've read so many of these now my brain just automatically corrects it.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
The part that annoys me the most is her going on about paper bags and how they recycled them. If she knows that's good to do why wasn't she doing it? The whole point of the story was that the cashier was telling her to bring her to not use the plastic bags.

It also completely ignores the huge amount of environmental damage that was done just to list a small amount of things that may have been better then.

That said, this isn't really STDH in my opinion. Whoever posted it clearly meant it as a moronic parable, not something that actually happened.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
That could easily have come from my STDH generator it's so generic.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
The cousin dating one. Classic. I did start work on making a new one by the way.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Samizdata posted:

Link please?

No link. I wrote it in C# about a year ago or something. It has since been lost in a HD failure (I think).

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
I thought the same thing the first time I read it.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Well they did say that it was hard to believe.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
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Click here to lodge a formal complaint.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

quote:

Me: Yes, but your dad told me that he has a certain budget to work with. This is a very nice car, with less than 20,000 miles on it. It runs and drives like new. (Turning to dad) Wow, that sounded cliche. I apologize!

Dad (Laughing): Sure was, but I think that I'll take it despite your cliche outburst!

This is the best part.

I wonder if STDH writers know that all these lovely stories probably didn't happen, or if they believe that they're all true and have to embellish their own stories to fit in.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Doubtful Guest posted:

We had this friend who literally could not keep a secret if you paid him to and he didn't care about that at all. It was a point of personal pride almost. I didn't tell him directly because that would be really low, but at the time I convinced myself that this was better. I told him that if he wanted to see something funny that he should tell Kate that he knew what happened at that one summer grad party. I didn't give him any details, didn't say anything at all, and didn't tell him that it had anything to do with us not talking.

The next week Kate went around asking people if they had heard the awful rumor I was spreading about her. I had multiple people come and ask me if it was true. I would only ever reply "Where did you hear it from?" Until they all realized that she had said it herself. I hadn't said a word but now everyone knew why she had suddenly fallen really hard out of love.

Does this part make sense to anyone else or is my brain broken after reading so much of this thread :downs:

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

quote:

Faith in humanity restored
I. Can't. Even.
Mind. Blown.
FML

These are all great.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Less STDH, more 'here is a stupid analogy that doesn't make sense to demonstrate my awful point of view'

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
So basically: "Hey guys! hehehe wouldn't it be funny if someone who really liked superman hehehehe thought that superman 64 was going to be a really good game heheheh and then it wasn't???? because superman 64 is so terrible! get it??? LOL"

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Josef bugman posted:

It has to fight hard against the whole "Its bullshit, I didn't hit her, its bullshit I did naaat. Oh hai Mark" bit.

You're tearing me apart Josef bugman!!!!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
I'm kind of confused why there has be a named group for 'cubers' instead of 'nerds who like to do puzzles or something'.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
That was posted a while back too. Has it resurfaced already?


sweeperbravo posted:

you can tell this one was written by a dude because it's implied that of course the mom takes this as a compliment rather than being super skeeved

What? you mean a woman wouldn't be delighted to hear that everyone in the vicinity wants to gently caress her? even old man's wife does! she must be well sexy.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Best part of that story is for some reason I kept misreading it as Son narrating and then hitting this line:

quote:

me - I do!

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Why does a 'hairy omelette' sound like a euphemism for something.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

yay :buddy: also, content! Stupid, stupid content.

quote:

Even the retarded need jobs in this country.

I realise this is from ages ago but doesn't this explain about 99% of these STDHs????

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Not only a paper cut but "slicing" fingers enough to bleed on the money.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Khazar-khum posted:

Crowning Moment of Awesome. Which is where this was lurking:

HEY EVERYONE!! My parents once did things of mild interest (possibly)!


Also, wouldn't it have been easier for Grandpa to just tell the mechanic what he thinks he did wrong instead of being a smug prick about it?

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
That's MASHUMARO NO ON'NANOKO!! and I'll have you know being/honouring a fat woman is considered the CORNERSTONE OF KAWAII!

In my homeland she would be considered.... beautiful :japan:

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

quote:

"I know what you're thinking, and you're right. I'm outnumbered eight to one. Even with a knife, you can still get me. But I can get on of you as well. So what you have to ask yourself is, do you want to die so that one of your friends can have what's in my wallet?"

and then the attackers completely ignored 'this trooper' and was mugged anyway. The end.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
It could also be completely made up and nobody would know.

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MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
I'm guessing that's talking about bags [of popcorn]? As in, crappy paper bags that a theatre would buy in packs of thousands? I'd love to see them do the stocktake on that.

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