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AskReddit is a popular subreddit on Reddit that allows any user to post interesting questions for anyone to answer, often generating funny discussion threads. These are their stories. 

'I have no idea when he'll finally want to take responsibility for his cat': Highschooler agrees to take care of a friend's kitten, but he ghosts him and says it might take 2-3 years

Ayala Sorotsky

Dave tries to gift his brother-in-law, Mark's, 1978 Porsche 911 to his 16-year-old son without permission, so Mark kicks him out and gets revenge by calling Dave's boss, costing him major promotion: 'Who tries to give away a $60,000 asset that isn't his?'

Emma Saven

25-year-old woman, who raised her ex-husband’s youngest brother like her own child, attends his school graduation despite her ex insisting she stay away, causing his new controlling girlfriend to make dramatic scene: 'My ex had struggled to calm her down'

Emma Saven

'Haven't laughed that hard in very long': Neighbor catches local teens on camera stealing and damaging his veggie garden, replaces produce with Carolina Reaper and Birdseye chillies as a deterrent, amused while watching their fiery reaction to eating them

Emma Saven

'This has been a nightmare': When a healthy tree fell from two women's yard during a storm and damaged neighbor’s shed, the uninsured neighbor demanded they pay $5,500 for the damage, suing them when they refused, despite laws claiming they aren't liable

Emma Saven

'We were transparent': Couple sells “untrustworthy” car to coworker for $3,000 in $200 monthly installments, with full disclosure of its history and no warranty, engine fails six weeks later, she demands returning it, but couple claims the sale was final

Emma Saven

Struggling 26-year-old Kira demands her 28-year-old roommate cover her share of rent, but she refuses after discovering Kira's been overcharging her $80 a month for utility bills and pocketing it for herself: 'Secretly adds charges without telling me'

Emma Saven

8th-grade troublemaker picks on 7th-grade girl for dressing alternatively and calls her a witch, so she leans into the accusation and scares him out of his mind: ‘[He] stared at me horrified’

Lana DeGaetano

Student secretly reports cheating to teacher, after group of boys in her Spanish class shared exam paper in advance, later criticized by classmate who claims they “needed to pass,” forcing her to rethink her actions: 'Should I have let karma do its job?'

Emma Saven

'I’m not trying to live in a zoo': 23-year-old man clashes with roommate after discovering he's secretly been keeping a wild squirrel as an “emotional support animal” in their apartment, leading to property damage, man releases squirrel while he's away

Emma Saven

Man lies his way into a job he’s super unqualified for with a fabricated resume, progresses by obsessively self-teaching under pressure through "trial-by-fire", ends up becoming legitimate expert in his field: ‘Ashamed of how I got my foot in the door’

Emma Saven

'Feels so personal and painful': Man considers skipping his brother’s wedding after being blindsided by the news that his brother is marrying his ex-girlfriend of two years, parents claim he's being selfish and immature

Emma Saven

Sarah wrongfully accuses her coworker of deleting her work during client pitch collaboration and files a complaint with management, only to discover that she’d been editing an old archived file with a similar name instead: 'Accused me of sabotaging her'

Emma Saven

'I haven’t heard a thank you': 23-year-old woman pays $360 to save older sister’s storage unit from auction, after learning it holds dining set their grandparents promised to her, restricting older sister's access until she refunds her, sparking tension

Emma Saven

'You’re putting a price on your niece?': 26-year-old woman refuses to keep babysitting niece for free after her sister repeatedly breaks promises to pay, causing family division as mother defends her sister, despite father telling her to maintain boundary

Emma Saven

Intern with memory issues outsmarts toxic manager after she asks him to memorize and recite every detail of client interactions, turns tables by presenting every unnecessary detail of his day, forcing HR to intervene: 'They agreed it wasn’t sustainable'

Emma Saven