People's Most Triumphant "I Told You So" Moments

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Eric Lund
May 2, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

We shouldn't be happy when bad things happen, but the whole world would be lying if it never admitted that some satisfaction comes with being right. That "I told you so" momentis sweet and it is strong. The feeling of righteous indignation is nice, even when it comes from your brother in law electrocuting himself while installing a lightbulb improperly.

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  • 01
    Font - runner_available 13 hours ago My sister and I were out sledding when we were kids at this place with a really steep hill. I had unknowingly gone down a sled path that had a jump in it, and when I landed it really hurt my back. So when I got back up to the top of the hill I told my sister "don't go that way, the jump really hurts". She called me a baby and didn't believe me that it really hurt so she decided she would go down that path on her sled. Well, she hit the jump and didn't get bac
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    Font - SpecialChosenBoi 14 hours ago Was picking beans with my sister and mom. To this day I still don't know why the fence was electric but it was. I touched it and I got zapped. It wasn't too bad but it hurt. I jumped away and my sister saw me, I said that it was an electric fence. Of course she just thought I was pranking her. I was trying to tell her the whole time we picked beans but she didn't believe me. Right at the end she touched the fence and she didn't see it coming at all... Her fac
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    Font - Tru-Queer 12 hours ago At work we keep buckets of pizza sauce with lids on them prepped and ready to go for, well, making pizzas. We usually keep them under the makeline table so they're easily accessible when you need to switch them out between the empty ones and the full ones. One day I watched as my coworker grabs a bucket of sauce with one hand and lifts it up to the counter and sets it down. I told him, "You got lucky this time, but never use 1 hand to lift the bucket up, always use
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    Font - ZendrixUno 14 hours ago e2 S In high school I was at a party where everyone was getting drunk. I had come with two friends and near the end of the night this one guy there was losing everyone into his van to get late night food. He swore he was not drunk and there were so many people in his car, including the two people I came with, it was not a battle I was going to win. But it seemed like an obviously dumb situation; bunch of underage kids packed into a van driving around in the suburbs
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    Font - kingkazul400 13 hours ago I work at a US Navy shipyard. My worst "I told you so" moment was when a submarine had multiple issues with sanitation/collection tanks and the piping that led from the showers and toilets to the sanitation/collection tanks. Documented and pointed out the same problems over a 12 week period. Supervisors and the tank area manager didn't give a damn and pointedly ignored my reports. Undocking day was approaching and the Captain of the sub wanted the boat out on tim
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    Font - That tank in question failed all three concurrent inspections. Undocking got pushed back by 30 days until all problems found were corrected. Daily operations estimated costs were north of $10,000/day. Factor in the mandatory overtime and rework required and we were looking at maybe triple the daily cost. This is just people's pay, I didn't get to see the material cost overrun but I know for a fact that a lot of the materials got shipped in or fabricated in-house overnight. Needless to say
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    Font - ool9i 15 hours ago · edited 14 hours ago Working in a horse breeding barn - told a new employee that she might want to wear gloves when cleaning horse "sheaths." She said it wasn't necessary. Next day, she's complaining that even 10 washes wouldn't get the stench off her hands. The mares liked her, though.
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    Font - PMME_ur_lovely_boobs 14 hours ago This is more of a "I told myself so" but anyway: When I applied to medical school, one of the application essays had a prompt that asked us what we would do if we did not get into medical school. I thought I would take a risk since it was a reach school and I wanted to stand out. I kept thinking it wasn't worth it and that I should just write a normal essay, but for some reason just went with the riskier option. I wrote that I would go to law school and b
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    Font - iliveinthelight 10 hours ago 2 e2 3 My partner and I were broke and struggling to make ends meet, but we always kept money in the budget for fun or takeout nights. One night we decided to get fish and chips. My partner had never ordered from that particular place before, but it was my favourite so he knew it'd be good. We don't have a lot of money to spare, so I know we had to order smart. "We'll only order what we need." We start driving and I'm about to call, and my partner tells me he
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    Font - We get to the fish and chip shop and we go to the counter to pay, and the old fellow who runs the shop comes over to serve us. We tell him what order we're here to collect. "That order is yours?" He goes. I start to shake my head and smile. "Yes," my partner replies. "And it's... just for you two?" The old man asks, looking concerned. “Ah... yes..." At this point I start laughing. “I tried to tell him." We both laugh and my partner realises his mistake when the old guy pulls out two huge
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    Font - bigwilliestylez 14 hours ago Lawyer here. Fired a partner who I found some real irregularities in their spending habits vs. what they were making after he couldn't provide a good answer to where it came from. Other partner left and started a new firm with them because they disagreed with my decision and refused to look at the evidence. Turns out he stole 500k of a clients money, got disbarred, and is now facing prison time. I told her to look at the evidence and she didn't listen.
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    Font - SynchronizedCalamity 13 hours ago Bed frame wasn't properly lashed down while moving, partner insisted the weight of the frame would keep it in place. Flew into the middle of a major intersection on a left turn. We dodged four lanes of on coming traffic to collect the pieces. I fixed my partner with a look that could peel paint, and he said "I know, I know, you told me so and you're right. I'm sorry." I still give him sFt for it every time we move something. It's funny now, but god damn w
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    Font - Master_of_Beef_Stew 11 hours ago Someone started talking about a bottle of Newman's Own salad dressing while at dinner with my family and I said something like "I'm pretty sure that was started by the Actor/Race car driver Paul Newman." to which one of my siblings replied “No it was someone else". I grabbed the bottle and turned it around and started reading the label out loud. The first sentence was "Paul Newman's career was acting, but his passion was auto racing." I stopped reading aft
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    Font - illogicalfuturity 11 hours ago My aunt fell for an MLM after I told her that the company was bogus and that their papers were so full of grammatical and spelling errors, you'd be a moron to fall for it. She insisted it was legit and that I was jealous of her finally getting that Sweet American Dream fortune. It took her losing $15K to realize that it was indeed a scam and that she won't get to have her Sweet American Dream mansion and poodles. Every time she acts like she's a wiz at anyth
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    Vertebrate - weaponizedpastry 12 hours ago Had a weirdly dark freckle. The color of chocolate. I showed spouse and he called me a hypochondriac and if I go to a doctor, I'd be wasting their time. I went to the dermatologist. It was melanoma.
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    Font - CayonSalad 10 hours ago & Since I was 14, my throat got itchy when I ate apples. I told my mom but she thought I just didn't want to eat apples and forced me to eat them. Went to the doctor's office and got a test for allergies. Turns out, I'm allergic to apples, peaches, and many other friuts.
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