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* NoSenseOfDirection: [[https://notalwaysright.com/loopy-lost-and-looking-for-learning/323656/ These two guys]] were told by their parents that they'd never be able to figure out the way to their university by themselves. From the look of things, their parents were right.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-uniforms-a-uniform-right/301207/ This naval officer]] wears their "dinner dress" uniform to a friend's wedding, only for the bride's sister to mistake him for a waiter.
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* TyrannicalHomeownersAssociation: [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-life-gives-you-lemonade-stands-you-get-yourself-evicted/249320/ This racist "HOA monster"]] repeatedly makes complaints about her neighbours, viewing the street as "her street" and (loudly) stating that things like yard sales shouldn't be held without her say-so. When a couple of Hispanic neighbourhood kids set up a lemonade stand to raise money for charity, she raises absolute hell, calling the police on them. When the police begin to take the kids' side, she tells them that they're paid "to do as I say, not take the word of some border-jumping Mexicans!" What she hasn't noticed is that [[FailedASpotCheck one of the deputies is Hispanic]]. [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard Not only is her complaint ignored, but the submitter points out that she's leaving her children alone to bitch at the neighbours, arousing the deputies' interest. Furthermore, her attempt to get a local newspaper to report on the "criminal activity" blew up in her face, as the reported instead wrote on her heavy-handedness.]] Three weeks later, possibly as a result of the police's investigation or bad publicity from the newspaper, she moved out of the neighbourhood.
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* MistakenForServant: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/really-gotta-work-on-your-delivery-with-new-neighbors/214018/ this story]], the OP is trying to warn a neighbor about the water being cut off to fix a leak, but the neighbor assumes they're a delivery driver come to pick up a parcel, and is too busy yelling at them for being late to let them explain. Eventually the OP gives up, puts the parcel down and goes back into their own house. Cue embarrassed expression as the neighbor [[HeelRealization realizes how stupid she's been]].
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** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/really-gotta-work-on-your-delivery-with-new-neighbors/214018/ this story]], the OP is trying to warn a neighbor about the water being cut off to fix a leak, but the neighbor assumes they're a delivery driver come to pick up a parcel, and is too busy yelling at them for being late to let them explain. Eventually the OP gives up, puts the parcel down and goes back into their own house. Cue embarrassed expression as the neighbor [[HeelRealization realizes how stupid she'sbeen]].been]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/and-what-happens-when-you-assume-part-4/324508/ This racist neighbour]] observes the (white) submitter's great-niece (who's half-black but looks white) playing with her brother (who's equally half-black but looks vaguely Latino), and tells the submitter it's cute that he's letting his granddaughter play with his "housekeeper's son." Suffice to say, [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech the submitter corrects her]].
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/really-gotta-work-on-your-delivery-with-new-neighbors/214018/ this story]], the OP is trying to warn a neighbor about the water being cut off to fix a leak, but the neighbor assumes they're a delivery driver come to pick up a parcel, and is too busy yelling at them for being late to let them explain. Eventually the OP gives up, puts the parcel down and goes back into their own house. Cue embarrassed expression as the neighbor [[HeelRealization realizes how stupid she's
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/and-what-happens-when-you-assume-part-4/324508/ This racist neighbour]] observes the (white) submitter's great-niece (who's half-black but looks white) playing with her brother (who's equally half-black but looks vaguely Latino), and tells the submitter it's cute that he's letting his granddaughter play with his "housekeeper's son." Suffice to say, [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech the submitter corrects her]].
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* TheDitz: [[https://notalwaysright.com/mercury-isnt-thing-retrograde/95346/ This train passenger]] has some very colourful things to say.
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* AccidentalTruth: The subject of the conversation in [[https://notalwaysright.com/better-than-a-space-delivery-boy/248439/ this story]] was told by his father that he'd never be anything but a ditch-digger. Years later, he's helped build the soil-sampler for the ''Curiosity'' rover, meaning he ''is'' digging ditches… ''on Mars''.
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* AccidentalTruth: The subject of the conversation in [[https://notalwaysright.com/better-than-a-space-delivery-boy/248439/ this story]] was told by his father that he'd never be anything but a ditch-digger. Years later, he's helped build the soil-sampler for the ''Curiosity'' rover, meaning he ''is'' digging ditches… ''on Mars''.''[[MundaneMadeAwesome on Mars]]''.
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* AccidentalTruth: The subject of the conversation in [[https://notalwaysright.com/better-than-a-space-delivery-boy/248439/ this story]] was told by his father that he'd never be anything but a ditch-digger. Years later, he's helped build the soil-sampler for the ''Curiosity'' rover, meaning he ''is'' digging ditches… ''on Mars''.
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* UnintelligibleAccent: [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-ballymena-ballyhoo/323660/ This Northern Irish missionary]] brings home friends he made in Africa. But he hails from Ballymena, a town known for a very thick accent. When the missionary and his friends are invited to a dinner by a local farmer and the farmer says grace before, the Africans had to have it explained to them afterwards that what they heard was in fact English.
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** Just barely averted in [[https://notalwaysright.com/do-not-address-me-about-my-dress/152761/ this story]]. The father ''had'' been getting increasingly drawn in by an incredibly sexist church, but watching the way that some of the church members treated his daughter ''in her own home'' was enough to bring him back to his senses.
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* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Claiming to not be a rocket scientist when confused backfires on the submitter's friend in [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-lockheed-blockhead/319897/ this story]]; the friend in question is an aerospace engineer for Lockheed Martin, so he actually ''is'' a rocket scientist.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Next to her twin sister[[https://notalwaysright.com/the-cutest-and-sweetest-littlest-volcano/150407/ this woman]] is much shyer, more introverted, and more feminine. But [[BigSisterInstinct offend her sister in any way]]… Well, let's just say that the reason her sister intervened wasn't to protect her "little" sister from the guy, but to protect ''him'' from ''her''!
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Next to her twin sister[[https://notalwaysright.sister, [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-cutest-and-sweetest-littlest-volcano/150407/ this woman]] is much shyer, more introverted, and more feminine. But [[BigSisterInstinct offend her sister in any way]]… Well, let's just say that the reason her sister intervened wasn't to protect her "little" sister from the guy, but to protect ''him'' from ''her''!
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[https://notalwaysright.com/grooming-the-situation/29352/ This man]] accepts an invitation to be best man at his friend's wedding, which disappoints his girlfriend, whose father -- who they've only recently met -- is going to be married on the same day... until it emerges that the submitter's friend ''is'' his girlfriend's father, which somehow none of them knew about.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[https://notalwaysright.com/grooming-the-situation/29352/ This man]] accepts an invitation to be best man at his friend's wedding, which disappoints his girlfriend, whose father -- who whom they've only recently met -- is going to be married on the same day... until it emerges that the submitter's friend ''is'' his girlfriend's father, which somehow none of them knew about.knew.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[https://notalwaysright.com/first-one-to-bail-wins/259648/ In this story]], the [=OP=] finds out after the fact that their former roommate intended to move out and stick them with the full rent (which neither could afford on their own). The comment section consists of multiple people pointing out that [=OP=] ''wasn't on the lease'', so Roommate would have been the one legally and financially responsible for paying the rest of the rent even if Roommate had pulled off the "midnight move".
** The crazy woman in [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-story-took-a-turn-and-a-switch/294950/ this story]] was already pressing her luck by taking her child on a flight despite explicitly being told she legally wasn't allowed to, and on her last chance, no less. But apparently, this woman didn't even consider that trying to steal the submitter's UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, which itself is a crime, would expose her stunt and make her lose all her remaining custody of her child.
** The crazy woman in [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-story-took-a-turn-and-a-switch/294950/ this story]] was already pressing her luck by taking her child on a flight despite explicitly being told she legally wasn't allowed to, and on her last chance, no less. But apparently, this woman didn't even consider that trying to steal the submitter's UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, which itself is a crime, would expose her stunt and make her lose all her remaining custody of her child.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[https://notalwaysright.com/first-one-to-bail-wins/259648/ In this story]], the [=OP=] submitter finds out after the fact that their former roommate intended to move out and stick them with the full rent (which neither could afford on their own). The comment section consists of multiple people pointing out that [=OP=] the submitter ''wasn't on the lease'', so Roommate would have been the one legally and financially responsible for paying the rest of the rent even if Roommate had pulled off the "midnight move".
** The crazy woman in [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-story-took-a-turn-and-a-switch/294950/ this story]] was already pressing her luck by taking her child on a flight despite explicitly being told she legally wasn'tallowed to, allowed, and on her last chance, no less. But apparently, this woman didn't even consider that trying to steal the submitter's UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, which itself is a crime, would expose her stunt and make her lose all her remaining custody of her child.
** The crazy woman in [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-story-took-a-turn-and-a-switch/294950/ this story]] was already pressing her luck by taking her child on a flight despite explicitly being told she legally wasn't
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dishing-the-dirty-dishes/ This person's roommate]] moves out without a word (potentially causing money issues) because the writer of the story changed the wifi password in response to her refusing to do the dishes to the point they were growing moldy.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dishing-the-dirty-dishes/ This person's roommate]] moves out without a word (potentially causing money issues) because the writer of the story changed the wifi Wifi password in response to her refusing to do the dishes to the point they were growing moldy.
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* FantasticRacism: [[https://notalwaysright.com/my-pet-halloween-project/30722/ This woman]] doesn't see the point in keeping black cats outside of Halloween.
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** The submitter finds [[https://notalwaysright.com/karma-is-catching/90815/ this cat]] who it turns out was abandoned out on the street in a town 10 kilometres away by its owner's boyfriend, [[ItsAllAboutMe who didn't like it]]. The submitter doesn't find out what happened after they returned the cat to its owner, but they suspect that the relationship didn't last.
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* YouAreNotAlone: The above story about phobias under WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes -- the woman is ashamed of her reaction to the puppeteer on TV, until her husband's friends relate their own phobias to her and reassure her that she's not weird.
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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hippies-really-get-my-goat/31084/ This pair of travelling hippies]] bring along a goat in hopes it will provide milk for them. Neither of them seem to understand that the pair of round objects hanging underneath the goat isn't an udder…
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hippies-really-get-my-goat/31084/ This pair of travelling hippies]] bring along a goat in hopes it will provide milk for them. Neither of them seem to understand that the pair of round objects hanging underneath the goat isn't an udder…
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-situation-has-gone-to-the-dogs/29386/ This jerk]] tries to adopt a pitbull but the submitter – his neighbour – informs the animal rescue volunteer that he has three other dogs in too small a yard, and that the dogs are too violent (they killed two of his family's cats) and are probably abused (the one non-violent dog is skittish around humans). When the volunteer tells him he can't allow any adoptions to the neighbour, he turns violent and gets himself arrested.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-situation-has-gone-to-the-dogs/29386/ This jerk]] tries to adopt a pitbull but the submitter – his neighbour – informs the animal rescue volunteer that he has three other dogs in too small a yard, and that the dogs are too violent (they killed two of his family's cats) and are probably abused (the one non-violent dog is skittish around humans). When the volunteer tells him he can't allow any adoptions to the neighbour, he turns violent and gets himself arrested.
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* ProducePelting: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-core-of-petty-revenge/311153/ This submitter]] threw a bad apple from their apartment balcony at a carful of people taĺking loudly late at night and keeping them up. It successfully drove them away.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/acting-like-the-first-three-letters-from-assume/115608/ “Did she just assume I was someone else, and then yell at me for assuming?”]]
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* LethallyStupid: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/need-betta-friends/92206/ this story]], the submitter has a friend watch their pets and house while they're away, and comes back to find that the friend has gotten all their tropical fish killed if not mortally wounded by unplugging the heater for the tank containing tropical fish (“The water felt too warm, so I thought I’d let it cool down"), and put two male betta fish in the same tank, getting the one of them killed as well ("The tank looked so empty with only one fish in it, so I got him a friend!”). In addition, they decided it was a good idea to host weekly parties at the submitter's house without telling them, resulting in the submitter's cat fleeing the noise and getting shut out of the house in the middle of winter (thankfully a neighbour took her in). Suffice to say, their friendship did not last.
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