r/AskReddit • u/fastjoyea • 2h ago

What actually made your 'jaw drop'?

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u/Helpful-Mixture-2500 2h ago

Watching the 9/11 attack live my senior year of high school. Seeing that second plane hit in real time, we all were utterly speechless.

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u/Baker_Kat68 1h ago

Yep. Same. I was in the Navy at the time and watched it all unfold on the tv in our maintenance shop. I knew right then our lives would be forever changed.

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u/Helpful-Mixture-2500 1h ago

I can only imagine how 9/11 must've felt being on active duty. Man, I've never really thought about it from that perspective before.

That will never be lost to me again. Really, thank you for the reminder.

Forever grateful for you and your fellow armed service members' sacrifices during that tough period. I've never seen the country come together like we did after the attack before or since.

I feel like people cared for one another a lot more back then.

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u/Baker_Kat68 1h ago

You were worth the sacrifice.
I wish our country was united again like it was on 9/12.

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u/Helpful-Mixture-2500 48m ago

"You were worth the sacrifice."

YOU are the real MVP. I really hope life is treating you well. And THAT line got me over here dang near teary eyed.

Friend, your integrity is irreproachable. I'm just glad people like you are out there.

I'd love to go back and experience the untity we had then too. Just live in those times again. My young, naive mind didn't understand how much things would eventually change, and not for the best IMO.

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u/anarege3t 2h ago

Gravity

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u/Finance_Plastic 2h ago

left hook

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u/Eldys_Garcia 2h ago

Liver shot

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u/Finance_Plastic 1h ago

yes, a gasp. except for Ali. or "you never knocked me down, Ray, you never knocked me down.....fade to blood drips on rope

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u/snowfield17 34m ago

Hahaha

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u/no-typos 2h ago

You win

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u/realrecycledstardust 2h ago

The audacity

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u/AggravatingTry4189 2h ago

Some customer at my old job demanded a full refund AND to keep the item because "the inconvenience ruined their whole week"

manager just blinked at them for like five seconds before speaking

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u/realrecycledstardust 1h ago

LMAO. People are delusional, esp in retail good lord.

I had someone yell at me because they asked if I had pennies to give them from a register, and I told them that I can't give them to him for free, but I could ask my manager about giving him change for a dollar or something. He then proceeded to call me stupid, yelling & causing a scene in the middle of a jewelry store and I was just standing there trying not to laugh

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u/Finance_Plastic 1h ago

before I got fired I would tell moron customers that we had free boxes of air in aisle 3

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u/alvarodee123 2h ago

Finding out that the quietest person in the group had the wildest life story

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u/Helpful-Mixture-2500 1h ago

I can relate to this.

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u/Finance_Plastic 1h ago

the hoodie dude on Slow Horses

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u/nairdaleo 2h ago

First time I saw my then-fiancee all dolled up in her wedding dress. She still doesn't believe me that was for real

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u/Baker_Kat68 1h ago

I love this 🥹

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u/the-clock-enthusiast 2h ago edited 2h ago

the sheer amount of pluralmisia (hostility towards plural systems and collectives of the like) in some reddit communities.

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u/Nervous-Mall-007 2h ago

I had to google this.

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u/the-clock-enthusiast 1h ago

yeah, not a very common term, edited it so its more accessible to people who dont know what it means.

just pisses us off whenever we get fakeclaimed for existing. its no redditors' business if we have a disorder or not and posts shouldnt be taken down just because they mention plurality yk

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u/-PMYourTastefulNudes 2h ago

A few feats of skill.

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u/JuanG_13 2h ago

When she took off her clothes in front of me for the first time.

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u/Jinxybug 2h ago

Seeing my first paycheck ever

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u/AdvanceAlive2103 1h ago

This is so stupid of me, but when I found out Laughy Taffy is so named because there are little jokes on the wrapper - my jaw literally fell open! 🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/leafytoes 1h ago

Eating mushrooms in the redwoods

Hiking in Switzerland

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u/Necessary-Quiet-Y 2h ago

When my dentist said open wide.

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u/usemyname63 2h ago

When our current leader won the election the first time. Or maybe when I found out he was actually running.

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u/gimmethreeee 2h ago

one time i fell asleep in the car

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 1h ago

When I found out my girlfriend’s brother died.

Happened years back on the cusp of New Years. About three days prior on a quiet night. I was at home and my girlfriend was with her family, then, a phone call from her cousin to drive over immediately.

It was surreal.

The drive felt like an eternity and walking into that house felt like time stopping.

Death is death but when it’s a young person, it transforms the atmosphere.

Yeah. That phone call is the only thing to ever make my jaw drop.

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u/PNWest01 32m ago

OJ’s not guilty verdict. I could not believe what I heard.

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u/Educational-Bowl-368 2h ago

Seeing Bonnie Blue was doing one of the worst sins man kind could do- her of all people bringing a child into the world, fully knowing how screwed over it's life would be.