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* DiscriminateAndSwitch:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/age-before-bigotry/ This]] story features a woman who is introducing her older sister's wife to her coworkers. One coworker is horrified and speechless... because she thinks the wife is underage. Once the wife assures her that [[OlderThanTheyLook she is 26]], the coworker says, "Oh, thank God! Don't scare me like that!"
** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was actually just making sure that the boyfriend ''knew'' the commenter's hair was green, because the boyfriend hadn't mentioned it and colorblindness ran in the family.

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DiscriminateAndSwitch: [[https://notalwaysright.com/age-before-bigotry/ This]] story features a woman who is introducing her older sister's wife to her coworkers. One coworker is horrified and speechless... because she thinks the wife is underage. Once the wife assures her that [[OlderThanTheyLook she is 26]], the coworker says, "Oh, thank God! Don't scare me like that!"
** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was actually just making sure that the boyfriend ''knew'' the commenter's hair was green, because the boyfriend hadn't mentioned it and colorblindness ran in the family.
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** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was just checking that the boyfriend ''knew'' the commenter's hair was green, because colorblindness ran in the family and he was concerned that the boyfriend might be showing signs of it.

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** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was actually just checking making sure that the boyfriend ''knew'' the commenter's hair was green, because the boyfriend hadn't mentioned it and colorblindness ran in the family and he was concerned that the boyfriend might be showing signs of it.family.
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** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was just checking the commenter's hair actually ''was'' green because colorblindness ran in the family.

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** Mentioned in the comments to [[https://notalwaysright.com/bright-green-with-envy/159238/ one story]], where the commenter's now-husband's father pulled him aside to make a seemingly passive-aggressive comment about the commenter's green hair, only to clarify years later that he was just checking that the boyfriend ''knew'' the commenter's hair actually ''was'' green was green, because colorblindness ran in the family.family and he was concerned that the boyfriend might be showing signs of it.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: [[http://notalwaysright.com/persistence-pays-and-pisses-off/ This girl]] should be the new mascot for the trope.



* {{Tsundere}}: [[http://notalwaysright.com/persistence-pays-and-pisses-off/ This girl]] should be the new mascot for the trope.
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* MommasBoy: [[https://notalwaysright.com/apron-strings-made-of-steel/288852/ This guy]] is described as having "a mommy complex so deep that I'm pretty sure therapists could make a case study out of him." Sure enough, when his wife gets injured in a car accident, he doesn't show up at the hospital or drive her home... [[SkewedPriorities because he's too busy helping his mother look for the TV remote]]. When he arrives home, he finds his wife gone and a pile of divorce papers waiting for him.
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There's SRO, and then there's just being a buzzkill.


** And [[http://notalwaysright.com/love-in-the-time-of-no-zombies/ here]] -- the response is a straight "Zombies don't exist."
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Correcting sexist language


** A man and his wife, both of whom are in the military, go to a restaurant. A stranger gives her backhanded, sexist praise, to which she goes on a long rant and ends up earning a free meal from the waitress. Her husband says, [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-service-for-those-in-service/ "I love you, beautiful, but stop scaring people."]]

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** A man and his wife, married couple, both of whom are in the military, go to a restaurant. A stranger gives her the wife backhanded, sexist praise, to which she goes on a long rant and ends up earning a free meal from the waitress. Her husband says, [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-service-for-those-in-service/ "I love you, beautiful, but stop scaring people."]]
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* TastesLikeFriendship: [[https://notalwaysright.com/they-say-thats-the-way-to-a-mans-heart/321668/ Two college freshmen]] meet over the girl's birthday cookie cake, realize that their birthdays are only one day apart, and years later are married with kids.
-->''And that's the story I tell my children of how I met their father -- and lured him in with a giant cookie!''
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* IRejectYourReality: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-psycho-path-to-a-break-up/42723/ This girlfriend]] accuses the submitter of being at a club, saying that two friends saw them there. Later, when they see those friends, they both say they didn't see them, until the girlfriend pulls one of them aside and she changes her story.

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