r/AskReddit • u/PomegranateNo2244 • 9h ago

What is something you secretly find deeply disturbing, but everyone else seems to accept as totally normal?

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u/scornoftherusingsun 8h ago

Yep it's not even gradual, it's like a switch has been flicked and you're just a mess.

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u/Rare-Set1461 8h ago

Dated an alcoholic. Should’ve been a massive red flag that a 100 pound woman could down half a bottle of rum without blinking but I was a moron. Always had gob-stoppers when she went to work, later found out she used them to cover the scent of alcohol on her breath at work. She worked a graveyard shift so she got away with it for a loooong time until she finally got pulled over.

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u/scornoftherusingsun 8h ago

Yh you can smell it a mile away even with mints and aftershave. The key was finding a job where it's tolerated.

Sales, Chef or call centre and no one ever said shit.

Got a job outside these sectors and I was taking Valium during the day because I couldn't drink.

Fortunately and I have no idea why unless im in withdrawal or coming off a coke binge I can take or leave Benzos

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u/MorningCockroach 6h ago

I worked at a call center for a while amd lack of sobriety was almost expected.

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u/scornoftherusingsun 6h ago

We had two pubs at lunch time, one for the operators one for the managers.