People have been sharing the weirdest things that happened to them in five minutes or less – 17 times life came at people fast
As the famous quote goes, there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. However it also seems there are five minutes where a surprising amount can happen, too.
If you’ve got young children or pets, you’ll already know this. But LawfulnessHaunting41 was intrigued to learn more, so they put the following question to the good people of Reddit.
‘What was your “I was gone for five minutes!” Story?’
Take five and check out these top replies…
1.
‘Went to the bathroom and left my two year old in the living room, with the baby gate closed. Heard thumping and giggling, and came downstairs to find that he had opened the baby gate (a new skill!) and gone into the kitchen, poured a litre of cooking oil all over the floor and was sliding around in it.’
-Magic_Fred
2.
‘I was whisking raw eggs to make fried chicken when I suddenly had to pee really bad. I told my husband to make sure none of the pets ate the raw eggs while I was gone. He rolled his eyes thinking that would never happen but agreed. When I got back to the kitchen 45 seconds later our female cat was eating the eggs. My husband has never heard the end of it.’
-rowdyate9
3.
‘Wrote an article about a colleague who was 12.5 years with my client company. We posted it on our intranet and I went to the bathroom. By the time I got back the dude had walked out. Left saying he never realised how long he stayed with that company, and that he hadn’t had the balls to get up and leave for years. Those 12.5 years in the hero image probably woke him up.’
-whatsamawhatsit
4.
‘My friend had a small pond on their farm that we’d fish in from time to time. Well they had a paddle boat and a couple of our friends were out on it. We walked to go get something from one of the shops, came back and the paddle boat was in the middle of the pond, quickly sinking with the two friends holding on for dear life to the back.’
-OurAdventuresKC
5.
‘My wife ran to the store to grab some extra avocados for chips and guacamole. By the time she got back a few minutes later Germany had already put 4 goals past Brazil.’
-DerekIsAGooner
6.
‘Coworker I was training to accept returns paid around a thousand USD in cash for an empty box.’
-sikkerhet
7.
‘I went to the bathroom at the bar. I came back out and when I got back on the patio one of my friends was being tossed into the alley by staff. Still have no idea what he did.’
-darkentj
8.
‘Went to make a cup of tea, came back and cat had strolled across my keyboard, sent three blank emails, opened 144 tabs, and changed my computer language to chinese’
-EllaAndJett
9.
‘I was gone for about an hour for volunteer orientation and my mom got a kitten.
‘Her name is Charlie.
‘She’s precious.’
-Oddish_Femboy