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I was standing in the lunch line of my K-12 school when a kid I was only vaguely acquainted with quipped, "I want to leave the world the way I entered it, naked and screaming."
This was during the height of the Yo Mama joke era, so I quipped back, "No one wants to hear what you and your mom do behind closed doors," and the whole line got quiet.
Turns out his mom died in a car crash earlier that month.
Another one was when I had just moved to a different location for my company as a help desk tech. I got a ticket for someone named David, according to AD. I went into the area where they worked and asked the room, "Is David here today?"
The whole room went quiet. Turns out the week before I moved offices HR had a meeting to announce that David is now Alice.
Alice didn't give a fuck because I was obviously not dead naming her maliciously. After that we regularly hung out during smoke breaks.
Really thought your second story was gonna end with David being dead... Which I mean, it kinda does
That second one is on HR - should have changed their name in the system.
Yup, I don't think they ever had her name changed, but she was having trouble getting the state to approve the name change, which I'm assuming is why they hadn't already done it.
Okay yeah his mom died but that was a pretty good clap back.
It was one of my rare moments of timely wittiness, so I was sad it didn't land as well as it would have with a different kid.