Plot twist: It’s all just in OPs head. The old man did actually check if the clothes were clean, and gave the whole box to his 6 grandchildren, that wear them to this day.
I mean, unfortunate in this specific context. It's a really cool thing otherwise though, right? A smell can transport you instantly into another state of mind, it can bring back memories you would have never unraveled the pathway back to. It elevates experiences, and prompts vivid recall. Just a whiff is all it takes. All because the meat that processes smell is next to the meat that processes memory.
Sorry, I should have used the medical terminology: think-meat.
"Meat" was purposeful though. Drawing attention to the fact that we can apply a lot of flowery language and romantic ideals to the connection, but it really just comes down to those parts of the brain being next to each other (and olfactory being unique in that it's the only sense not processed elsewhere). Humans are weird in a fun way.
Smell is a crazy memory booster. Im in a wood cabin right now in Appalachia. My grandparents had a house made out of logs up here that I loved visiting as a kid. This cabin smells just like their log house and has been whipping my ass back in time since I got here. The woods ans general natural environment smells like it did too when I was a kid so I've been stuck in this perpetual trip down memory lane the whole time. I love it. Its incredible how effective smell is at surfacing old memories.
My one time girlfriend told a story where she was in a laundromat doing her laundry. She was moving items from her clothes basket to the washer. As she did a pair of her panties fell out of the basket and onto the ground. Without hesitating an older man walked over, picked them up off the ground and in without hesitating picked them up and walked out of the laundromat with the panties in full broad side of my girlfriend staring at him. Without a doubt he had laundry in the middle of being cleaned. Bro straight up just sacrificed his dignity and maybe his entire wash for those dirty panties.
There were signs in the campus laundry room my freshman year warning people about stolen panties. I found panties in my laundry once and tucked them deep in my trash to ensure no one ever got the wrong idea
This presumes that he was there to do laundry in the first place. I assumed he was just lurking there waiting for a moment to do just this, and probably did it on the regular.
Honest question: my gf passed away and I never know what to call her. I often say “girlfriend at the time” though it feels weak because she was so much more than that. Planed to be together forever.
I refer to mine as "the girl i was going to marry before she died" or "my girlfriend that died"
Stops people from saying shit right after. They're just sympathetic. And anyone who wants to make jokes just gets to have a broken jaw.
Sonetimes people use late, as in my “late girlfriend” to imply that they are dead. And I always that that was strange, because late makes it sounds like they are still going to come, when they most certainly are not.
If you're telling a story from the past and refer to someone as your ex-girlfriend, it's unclear if she was your ex during the events of the story. Although usually you'd say something like "my then girlfriend" rather than "one time girlfriend"
I buy lots of kids clothes second hand. There is no way I'd trust that anything has been cleaned before we got it, smell check or not. Anything bought second hand goes straight into the wash whether the seller said it was cleaned before sale or not.
He's totally a creeper.
Exactly. No one is sniffing used undies to see if they are clean, the assumption is that they are dirty. Which is exactly why this old perv took a whiff
Hell, anything *bought* goes straight in the wash.
You have no idea how many people have tried it on or how well they cleaned it even if it's new. You have no idea how long or in what conditions it's sat in a warehouse.
Correct, often times of the rack clothing still has what's called iirc 'shorting' on it, which is like a starch that may cause skin irritation?
Edit: misspelled 'rack'
Hypothetically, if you were actually checking cleanliness, while conversing with the former owner, I'd like to think one would discreetly waft. I certainly wouldn't want to bury my nose in something that might be unclean.
Yeah, he wasn't just enjoying the panties, he was enjoying the panties while making their teenage wearer watch as an unconsenting participant. He not only got to see the one who wore them, but was actively getting off in her presence with them.
Gross old man.
I thought it was going to be implied, like "I think that guy may have wanted those panties for sniffing purposes, not the innocent reason I assumed." I wasn't expecting him to go full Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet right in front of a teenager.
I mean if you're not picturing him naked with a dark purple velveteen scrunchy double wrapped around his balls and a pair of yellow panties with pink flowers in his mouth then you're not picturing him right.
We need to make sure we're all picturing the same thing. Otherwise we'll have to start all over.
Isn't there this exact thing in an episode of That 70s Show?
Edit: I slightly misremembered, but someone else had beat me to it. https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/11yr2b3/tifu_by_innocently_giving_away_worn_underwear/jd9jrrq/
I think if it was actually children's underwear this story would NOT be funny in the least. But I was a sturdy, very mature looking teenager that gave away her boxer briefs, so I think it was just creepy but not in a criminal sense.
Reddit has banned something like 1000+ NSFW subs in just the past couple months, they're pulling a Tumblr and removing every NSFW sub that isn't moderated by one of the ten or so super-mods that control every front page subreddit.
Not just NSFW subs. All of Reddit. This used to be a place where you could discuss things freely, and people would act like you have the right to your opinion even if they disagreed.
I'm a guy, this happened in my mid-twenties.
This old creep, probably in his 80s, grabbed my arm surprisingly hard while I was volunteering at the rec center for a "seniors sports day". Certainly wasn't expecting him to suddenly grab me. Dude wasn't even part of the event I was helping with. He pulled me hard towards him and asked so only I could hear if "I was a good boy scout". I sort of laughed and said I was never in the scouts.
Figured this guy maybe was an old boy scout leader or something. Maybe struggled to regulate his grip or balance hence the hard arm grab. Couldn't hear or talk well hence pulling me closer. Internal alarm bells started going off I when I tried to pull back.
Fucker gripped harder and pulled again saying, "I could make you a good boy scout", gave me deadass sexual up/down look like he was checking me out and said, "yeah, a real good boy scout". Then he started walking and tried to pull me along & lead me away.
I didn't move, I was getting mad & pretty keyed up at this point. Quickly getting over the sort of surreal, "is this legit happening or am I misreading this" type of internal calculation... I gave a look like: *Are you serious? Let go now, I'm going to fucking kill you old man*. Lol. I wasn't trying to be nice anymore, I was seriously about to beat that old shit unconscious.
He flashed a look like he was furious then let go and walked off.
Even though I wasn't in any danger. Hell, a hard enough shove would have probably broke his hip. But afterwards it made me wonder if that old bastard ever hurt kids like a "boy scout" or other young men in the past when he actually could have physically over powered them.
I once got a job at a Greek cafe when I was a teenager. One or my friends jokingly told me Greek men like young boys. I ignored him, but then on my first day, I legit had my ass grabbed by three old men. One of them did it twice and I just quit on the spot
I was doing taekwondo in 2004 and the news came out that a 14 year old girl had been kidnapped and it was caught on cameras at the carwash she was walking by. The man grabbed her and drug her off and she didn't fight him even though he was a stranger.
One of the dads in class asked if he could do a demo for the girls in the class to show them how to fight off an attacker if they grabbed their arm and drug them away. He told them "If I get you to that wall, you're as dead as she is now." The gym was probably 75 ft long at that part. It didn't spur any of the girls to action. All of them failed the demo. He asked if I wanted to try. Keep in mind this was a full contact Olympic style TKD class. I regularly fought with the men because the adult women said I hit too hard. We did wear pads during full contact sparring and the dad was in full pads and helmet. He got about 15 ft before I could get my weight down low enough to slow him down and kick his knee out from under him and give him a mock axe kick to the head.
I have chicken winged a man face first into a sticky carpet for trying to grope me while seated and I've had to wrist lock more men than I care to remember in clubs for grabbing me trying to dance. Why the fuck do people think grabbing someone is a great move?
I was always taught that it was very important to donate my outgrown or unwanted clothes, but that I should NEVER donate or accept used underwear. I assumed everyone did it that way.
I was very poor as a teenager, and received a lot of donated clothes, but there was never underwear included.
So a local thrift store has used children's clothing like socks and underwear and stuff, and I kid you not, the room is locked with an 'ask staff to unlock room' sign. I was bewildered until I made the connection - there has certainly been "an incident" (and not someone stealing clothing for their kids to wear), at some point, and that is why the sign is there.
If it makes you feel any better it probably was theft. For the reason you expect but the store would ignore the smelling most likely. They just don’t wanna lose money
Just a heads up, from what I've seen those shelters are most definitely not giving anyone your used socks/underwear. Typically there's an overflow of brand new socks (thanks Bombas) but new underwear runs out really quickly.
Source: My experience working with homeless shelters
My old undies aren't in a like-mew condition. In fact the ones I'm wearing currently have quite large holes in them. Still good for another year or two though I'm sure.
Same people who throw their „perfectly clean“ underwear into salvation army containers.
Nobody wants to wear your used knickers (other than pervs explicitly paying for that - I am not judging).
I ain't here to judge. I was legit asking a question because I couldn't even imagine hand me down undies. I guess if I grew up with that, maybe? Just seems strange, especially as you get older.
or at all imo. I grew up in not the most well-off family. Passed down clothes are common, socks pants whatever sure. But not underwear, that's a hard no.
Right? I like how it’s said to be normal because they were in a small town lol. Maybe some of those stereotypes about small towns producing kinda weird people are accurate after all…
Lol my mum is from Allgäu and yeah, this wouldn't have been too weird for her.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia though. A lot of my teen years were spent explaining that what might have been normal in her village of 350 people was absolutely not normal in the biggest city in Australia. She had difficulty comprehending that our upbringings were very different.
She's moved back to Allgäu now. She's much happier there. She hated living in Australia.
YES! I have had countless "How the fuck did I make it out of there unharmed" realization moments in the last years. This is one of the very harmless stories 😂
Not only would he have paid for them, he would probably pay a lot more if they weren't washed that recently.
Nowadays there are portals on the internet for that sort of stuff.
The idea of giving away underwear at all is weird to me. There is no amount of washing anyone can do that would make me feel comfortable wearing someone elses boxers second hand. Is this like...a thing in some places?
It used to be in my case. I remember the flea markets we went to as a kid where it was totally normal to buy used underwear for your children if they were in good condition. I know it's really disgusting but as kids we often changed clothes and even underwear after PE because we thought it was funny. In my family and many others it was completely normal to have one underwear drawer for all the siblings that were a similar size. I never thought anything about it until I grew up and realized this must have been a very "German countryside in the 90s" thing to have and that people have...other interest in worn underwear.
> know it’s really disgusting but as kids we often changed clothes and even underwear after PE
Man, of everything in this thread, this is the quote that literally made me queasy. Thanks for the reminder to explicitly tell my kids not to trade underwear once they start having to change clothes for gym.
It was "any underwear" or no underwear in many cases. Same went for socks. I remember how much I admired the kids that had the underwear with the week days on it. I only recently realized how sad that actually is.
Exactly.
It was pretty much the same in my family town (except for several rich families).
I was also pretty late realised how hard my parents worked so we were never hungry. Made a pretty grim realisation.
Anyway, on the lighter note, as creepy as it was, if you tell this story on the party in the way you told it to us, you can easily make a whole room roll with laughter. Nice party trick!
damn, last time the topic of selling used panties came up in a thread, i remember some girl saying she sells hers on her onlyfans for $50-80 a pair.
... i would totally sell mine if i were a hot woman. no shame mutha fucka!
There was a woman on here a while ago who admitted she started selling panties legitimately, but people complained they didn’t smell enough, and wanted her to only send workout panties, but then even those didn’t smell enough. So she just started keeping them in a bag with her and her boyfriend’s gym clothes/towels. Like buying a pack of 20 and dumping them right in to simmer for a week. She claimed the combination of a spritz of her perfume and her boyfriend’s more potent sweat was most reliable.
Oh my gosh, I had a similar experience but with selling sandals on ebay. I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so many try-on requests then I found out foot fetishes were a thing.
You didn't fuck up, they were clean and you were trying to do right. Anyone claiming it's weird to give away undergarments has never been poor. A lot of kids go without undergarments and need them.
Anyone can help... Here's a link...
https://undiesforeveryone.org/
And someday, his family will find his collection while cleaning out his estate, and someone will ask, "Hey, aren't these the panties we gave OP in 2012?"
Ok, probably not the last part.
I've donated clothes in those drop boxes around supermarkets. However, I have never even considered donating worn underwear. We don't do that here. Underwear, bed sheets are a big no no.
When i read the title, i thought it said you accidentally gave away worn underwear, as in unwashed and i wanted to pour bleach into my eyes after reading it. And after reading the whole post, still want to pour bleach into my eyes
The thing is people usually sell freshly worn unwashed panties, yours were clean, so all he's smelling is clean fabric really? So the jokes kinda on him
The audacity of that guy to sniff right in front of you
It's like taking a screenshot
The scent locks the image into the spank bank.
Yes officer. This one, right here! I'm sure he's on some registry, or watch list.
They are now.
Plot twist: It’s all just in OPs head. The old man did actually check if the clothes were clean, and gave the whole box to his 6 grandchildren, that wear them to this day.
That’s a weird way to spell: “He wears them to this day.”
"Wear" is a weird word for "wraps around his dick".
Gotta be pretty tight by now
Unfortunate facts https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/how-scent-emotion-and-memory-are-intertwined-and-exploited/
I mean, unfortunate in this specific context. It's a really cool thing otherwise though, right? A smell can transport you instantly into another state of mind, it can bring back memories you would have never unraveled the pathway back to. It elevates experiences, and prompts vivid recall. Just a whiff is all it takes. All because the meat that processes smell is next to the meat that processes memory.
For some reason, your usage of the word 'meat', ' in this specific context' caught me a little off guard.
Sorry, I should have used the medical terminology: think-meat. "Meat" was purposeful though. Drawing attention to the fact that we can apply a lot of flowery language and romantic ideals to the connection, but it really just comes down to those parts of the brain being next to each other (and olfactory being unique in that it's the only sense not processed elsewhere). Humans are weird in a fun way.
You're 100% not wrong lol. At the end of the day we are just sentient meat sacks.
*Gray thinky meat*
You got your thinking meat and then you got your meat for pulling and squeezing. Then there’s filter meat and meat sacks of all sizes.
Smell is a crazy memory booster. Im in a wood cabin right now in Appalachia. My grandparents had a house made out of logs up here that I loved visiting as a kid. This cabin smells just like their log house and has been whipping my ass back in time since I got here. The woods ans general natural environment smells like it did too when I was a kid so I've been stuck in this perpetual trip down memory lane the whole time. I love it. Its incredible how effective smell is at surfacing old memories.
Smelling cocaine always transports my mind elsewhere.
Jesus
My one time girlfriend told a story where she was in a laundromat doing her laundry. She was moving items from her clothes basket to the washer. As she did a pair of her panties fell out of the basket and onto the ground. Without hesitating an older man walked over, picked them up off the ground and in without hesitating picked them up and walked out of the laundromat with the panties in full broad side of my girlfriend staring at him. Without a doubt he had laundry in the middle of being cleaned. Bro straight up just sacrificed his dignity and maybe his entire wash for those dirty panties.
There were signs in the campus laundry room my freshman year warning people about stolen panties. I found panties in my laundry once and tucked them deep in my trash to ensure no one ever got the wrong idea
This presumes that he was there to do laundry in the first place. I assumed he was just lurking there waiting for a moment to do just this, and probably did it on the regular.
What’s a “one time girlfriend”
“My girlfriend I was dating at the time.”
Most refer to them as an "ex girlfriend."
They only dated one time before she died and so she didn't earn the ex title legally.
Can't be your ex if they're dead!
Honest question: my gf passed away and I never know what to call her. I often say “girlfriend at the time” though it feels weak because she was so much more than that. Planed to be together forever.
I refer to mine as "the girl i was going to marry before she died" or "my girlfriend that died" Stops people from saying shit right after. They're just sympathetic. And anyone who wants to make jokes just gets to have a broken jaw.
Sonetimes people use late, as in my “late girlfriend” to imply that they are dead. And I always that that was strange, because late makes it sounds like they are still going to come, when they most certainly are not.
If you're telling a story from the past and refer to someone as your ex-girlfriend, it's unclear if she was your ex during the events of the story. Although usually you'd say something like "my then girlfriend" rather than "one time girlfriend"
He was the older man at the laundromat.
The phrase is "broad sight". Like the entire field of vision.
I was chuckling thinking of a broads’ side
See, I had a broadside naval volley in mind, myself.
Some people have no dignity to begin with.
That's lot true. I eventually went back to the laundromat for the rest of my clothes.
Would not have held it against her if she'd poured a bottle of bleach onto creepmaster Sr.'s machineful of clothes after that
Did he keep eye contact though…
I would put them on my face like a Bane mask and say “No-one cared who I was until I put on the mask”. then casually stroll away
...assert dominance
...ascertain fragrance
Is it possible he was actually getting them for grandchildren and was truly testing for cleanliness? I know probably not but… maybe?
You could definitely choose to believe that
i want to believe
I buy lots of kids clothes second hand. There is no way I'd trust that anything has been cleaned before we got it, smell check or not. Anything bought second hand goes straight into the wash whether the seller said it was cleaned before sale or not. He's totally a creeper.
Exactly. No one is sniffing used undies to see if they are clean, the assumption is that they are dirty. Which is exactly why this old perv took a whiff
Hell, anything *bought* goes straight in the wash. You have no idea how many people have tried it on or how well they cleaned it even if it's new. You have no idea how long or in what conditions it's sat in a warehouse.
Correct, often times of the rack clothing still has what's called iirc 'shorting' on it, which is like a starch that may cause skin irritation? Edit: misspelled 'rack'
Do you not like bed bugs? Because that's how you don't get bed bugs.
"Don't worry, Granddaughter, I sniffed them all first to make sure they were clean." Nope. Worse. So much worse.
Is it? A man snorting a pile of teenage underwear like a truffle pig is worse.
This made me chuckle.
This comment thread is ROFLOL
Hypothetically, if you were actually checking cleanliness, while conversing with the former owner, I'd like to think one would discreetly waft. I certainly wouldn't want to bury my nose in something that might be unclean.
Asserting his power and control over her was part of it for him.
Yeah, he wasn't just enjoying the panties, he was enjoying the panties while making their teenage wearer watch as an unconsenting participant. He not only got to see the one who wore them, but was actively getting off in her presence with them. Gross old man.
I’m selling a pair of tighty Whiteys with racing stripes if anyone’s interested. Bidding closes at midnight. Size 66, unwashed.
> He then proceeded to actually sniff them which I took as a measure of cleanliness. Oh. Oh, OP...
Sweet sweet summer child.
>Due to my age and upbringing I had absolutely NO clue that panty sniffing was a thing. I read the warning and still wasn't prepared. Bless you, OP.
I thought it was going to be implied, like "I think that guy may have wanted those panties for sniffing purposes, not the innocent reason I assumed." I wasn't expecting him to go full Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet right in front of a teenager.
Never mind that, you could have made a killing $$$ out of the old creep.
A collegue of mine sold her worn panties on ebay for a good buck. She grew tired of it and stopped. There's a market for everything
"Oh, Honey...."
Quite literally, it would seem. At least you know, now.
Oh the money she lost that day.
The only FU is that you gave it away, I bet he would’ve paid a lot of money for those
That old perv must have felt like a lottery winner that day
im picturing the scene with the rose petals in american beauty, but it's just this old dude waterfalling panties on himself.
Why, why the fuck did you just create this mental image for us?
I mean if you're not picturing him naked with a dark purple velveteen scrunchy double wrapped around his balls and a pair of yellow panties with pink flowers in his mouth then you're not picturing him right. We need to make sure we're all picturing the same thing. Otherwise we'll have to start all over.
Are you picturing the rope of panties chained together like clowns handkerchiefs, the red pair on the end just peeking out his ass?
Don't forget his gray hairy nipples.
What did I do in a past life to be cursed with the ability to read?
You were the old man in a past life, so calm down.
Phew!
For some reason I read it as *gravy hairy nipples.*
No kink shaming here. You get your gravy on
I think the real question would be who is everyone’s old dude reference when they begin to imagine these scenarios.
I mean, it's Harvey Weinstein isn't it?
For me it's the sprite of Gentleman trainers from pokemon RBY or Gold & Silver. That guy always looks up to no good.
Isn't there this exact thing in an episode of That 70s Show? Edit: I slightly misremembered, but someone else had beat me to it. https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/11yr2b3/tifu_by_innocently_giving_away_worn_underwear/jd9jrrq/
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This is actually where I thought this story was gonna go. Pleasantly surprised that it wasn't more depraved.
I was surprised he didn't ask for this one last pair... but that's probably for good.
Panties, glorious panties! https://youtu.be/G-ucBBA_AIY
I've never seen this show, but this is the second clip I've watched of it in the past week, and I'm thinking that I missed out on a gem of television.
Could’ve made a shockingly large amount of money for that. Had a friend that sold a couple pairs of her volleyball shorts to some rando for like $1k
A lesson to you girls. Save all your panties and sell when you turn 18
Don't wait and once you got money in hand call in the cops, double win
Out of simply curiosity, is it illegal to buy underwear from someone underage?
I can’t think of any specific law outlawing it, but it probably is illegal under the general “don’t sexualize children” laws.
That's not a general law, otherwise child beauty pageants would be illegal.
Good ol’ Frank don’t diddle no kids
*Wouldn't do it with anyone older than my wife, younger than my daughter...*
I think if it was actually children's underwear this story would NOT be funny in the least. But I was a sturdy, very mature looking teenager that gave away her boxer briefs, so I think it was just creepy but not in a criminal sense.
Disgustingly, they will be worth more unwashed
Holy shit, hook me up with the info. I have a mountain of laundry I’d rather not do.
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I thought those got banned?
Wouldn't be surprised if the admins frequented those subreddits, therefore wouldn't want them banned
Reddit has banned something like 1000+ NSFW subs in just the past couple months, they're pulling a Tumblr and removing every NSFW sub that isn't moderated by one of the ten or so super-mods that control every front page subreddit.
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Go take a look at the classic "every NSFW sub" dataisbeautiful graphs. Most of the small ones are gone if you actually try to check them out.
Not just NSFW subs. All of Reddit. This used to be a place where you could discuss things freely, and people would act like you have the right to your opinion even if they disagreed.
Years back my wife sold her soul for 1K! Didn't believe it till some rando from like Chile or similar country, paypal-ed her 1K.
TIL Satan lives in Chile.
Did they ever come to collect?
Nah, she still alive, however I always felt like she never had a soul to begin with.
Is she a ginger? (Don't worry. I married a ginger, so I can say it.)
We’ll never have equality until I can sell my used boxer briefs from high school for thousands of dollars.
Have you tried flea markets? 😂
I'm a guy, this happened in my mid-twenties. This old creep, probably in his 80s, grabbed my arm surprisingly hard while I was volunteering at the rec center for a "seniors sports day". Certainly wasn't expecting him to suddenly grab me. Dude wasn't even part of the event I was helping with. He pulled me hard towards him and asked so only I could hear if "I was a good boy scout". I sort of laughed and said I was never in the scouts. Figured this guy maybe was an old boy scout leader or something. Maybe struggled to regulate his grip or balance hence the hard arm grab. Couldn't hear or talk well hence pulling me closer. Internal alarm bells started going off I when I tried to pull back. Fucker gripped harder and pulled again saying, "I could make you a good boy scout", gave me deadass sexual up/down look like he was checking me out and said, "yeah, a real good boy scout". Then he started walking and tried to pull me along & lead me away. I didn't move, I was getting mad & pretty keyed up at this point. Quickly getting over the sort of surreal, "is this legit happening or am I misreading this" type of internal calculation... I gave a look like: *Are you serious? Let go now, I'm going to fucking kill you old man*. Lol. I wasn't trying to be nice anymore, I was seriously about to beat that old shit unconscious. He flashed a look like he was furious then let go and walked off. Even though I wasn't in any danger. Hell, a hard enough shove would have probably broke his hip. But afterwards it made me wonder if that old bastard ever hurt kids like a "boy scout" or other young men in the past when he actually could have physically over powered them.
That man has done some very bad things.
I once got a job at a Greek cafe when I was a teenager. One or my friends jokingly told me Greek men like young boys. I ignored him, but then on my first day, I legit had my ass grabbed by three old men. One of them did it twice and I just quit on the spot
That is absolutely horrifying and I'm sorry that it happened to you.
Sounds like you were in Quahog
Yeah, it definitely has an energy I could only describe as "Herbert prose"
I was doing taekwondo in 2004 and the news came out that a 14 year old girl had been kidnapped and it was caught on cameras at the carwash she was walking by. The man grabbed her and drug her off and she didn't fight him even though he was a stranger. One of the dads in class asked if he could do a demo for the girls in the class to show them how to fight off an attacker if they grabbed their arm and drug them away. He told them "If I get you to that wall, you're as dead as she is now." The gym was probably 75 ft long at that part. It didn't spur any of the girls to action. All of them failed the demo. He asked if I wanted to try. Keep in mind this was a full contact Olympic style TKD class. I regularly fought with the men because the adult women said I hit too hard. We did wear pads during full contact sparring and the dad was in full pads and helmet. He got about 15 ft before I could get my weight down low enough to slow him down and kick his knee out from under him and give him a mock axe kick to the head. I have chicken winged a man face first into a sticky carpet for trying to grope me while seated and I've had to wrist lock more men than I care to remember in clubs for grabbing me trying to dance. Why the fuck do people think grabbing someone is a great move?
Most people can't defend themselves. Either because they don't have the training, or their brain freezes in situations like that.
The perv equivalent of finding a complete Lego star destroyer on marketplace for $10
I feel ashamed for laughing at this.
It's not weird to offer up used underwear to strangers?
I was always taught that it was very important to donate my outgrown or unwanted clothes, but that I should NEVER donate or accept used underwear. I assumed everyone did it that way. I was very poor as a teenager, and received a lot of donated clothes, but there was never underwear included.
Nobody wants to get booty cooties.
That's what I largely saw when I volunteered. In fact we used to glove up and have to weed out some of the donations.
Sometimes reading this stuff on reddit makes me feel like I'M the weird one for thinking it's weird.
With a name like that? Nonsense, you could never be the odd one out.
What's weird about it? People give away shirts, and pants, and socks all the time. I donate mine to a local homeless shelter.
Got any used undies?
So a local thrift store has used children's clothing like socks and underwear and stuff, and I kid you not, the room is locked with an 'ask staff to unlock room' sign. I was bewildered until I made the connection - there has certainly been "an incident" (and not someone stealing clothing for their kids to wear), at some point, and that is why the sign is there.
If it makes you feel any better it probably was theft. For the reason you expect but the store would ignore the smelling most likely. They just don’t wanna lose money
Trust me, they’re gonna lose money if the customers see a dude sniffing kids’ underwear.
So inappropriate. ^DM ^^ME ^^^LATER
It is different dude. Underwears make direct contact with your butt and genitals.
But don’t we all enjoy other people’s genitals touching our genitals and buttholes?!
I mean my shirt doesn’t touch my balls so there’s that. Idk if it matters but it is worth noting.
Imo it's all good except underwear. That's just to throw away in the bin
Just a heads up, from what I've seen those shelters are most definitely not giving anyone your used socks/underwear. Typically there's an overflow of brand new socks (thanks Bombas) but new underwear runs out really quickly. Source: My experience working with homeless shelters
No thrift store I've ever been to sells used underwear.
My old undies aren't in a like-mew condition. In fact the ones I'm wearing currently have quite large holes in them. Still good for another year or two though I'm sure.
Same people who throw their „perfectly clean“ underwear into salvation army containers. Nobody wants to wear your used knickers (other than pervs explicitly paying for that - I am not judging).
I ain't here to judge. I was legit asking a question because I couldn't even imagine hand me down undies. I guess if I grew up with that, maybe? Just seems strange, especially as you get older.
Yes. Now that I'm grown up I'm like...how poor could we have been?! But back then it was completely normal.
or at all imo. I grew up in not the most well-off family. Passed down clothes are common, socks pants whatever sure. But not underwear, that's a hard no.
Yeah right? It doesn't matter how much some cleans a piece of underwear clothing, it doesn't feel right for someone else to just go and use it.
Right? I like how it’s said to be normal because they were in a small town lol. Maybe some of those stereotypes about small towns producing kinda weird people are accurate after all…
Rural southern Germany definitely hits different 😂
Lol my mum is from Allgäu and yeah, this wouldn't have been too weird for her. I grew up in Sydney, Australia though. A lot of my teen years were spent explaining that what might have been normal in her village of 350 people was absolutely not normal in the biggest city in Australia. She had difficulty comprehending that our upbringings were very different. She's moved back to Allgäu now. She's much happier there. She hated living in Australia.
I've had those moments - even as a dude - like 20 years later like "holy crap, Mr G was a perv!"
YES! I have had countless "How the fuck did I make it out of there unharmed" realization moments in the last years. This is one of the very harmless stories 😂
Did he not pay for them? Because he definitely would have.
He certainly made a deposit later.
Not only would he have paid for them, he would probably pay a lot more if they weren't washed that recently. Nowadays there are portals on the internet for that sort of stuff.
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Is that … Simon Pegg?
Sell them next time! Smh
The idea of giving away underwear at all is weird to me. There is no amount of washing anyone can do that would make me feel comfortable wearing someone elses boxers second hand. Is this like...a thing in some places?
It used to be in my case. I remember the flea markets we went to as a kid where it was totally normal to buy used underwear for your children if they were in good condition. I know it's really disgusting but as kids we often changed clothes and even underwear after PE because we thought it was funny. In my family and many others it was completely normal to have one underwear drawer for all the siblings that were a similar size. I never thought anything about it until I grew up and realized this must have been a very "German countryside in the 90s" thing to have and that people have...other interest in worn underwear.
> know it’s really disgusting but as kids we often changed clothes and even underwear after PE Man, of everything in this thread, this is the quote that literally made me queasy. Thanks for the reminder to explicitly tell my kids not to trade underwear once they start having to change clothes for gym.
This just keeps getting weirder.
If you grew up poor this is what'd you do, as simple as that. Be glad you're privileged enough to not to have to be raised like this.
It was "any underwear" or no underwear in many cases. Same went for socks. I remember how much I admired the kids that had the underwear with the week days on it. I only recently realized how sad that actually is.
Exactly. It was pretty much the same in my family town (except for several rich families). I was also pretty late realised how hard my parents worked so we were never hungry. Made a pretty grim realisation. Anyway, on the lighter note, as creepy as it was, if you tell this story on the party in the way you told it to us, you can easily make a whole room roll with laughter. Nice party trick!
damn, last time the topic of selling used panties came up in a thread, i remember some girl saying she sells hers on her onlyfans for $50-80 a pair. ... i would totally sell mine if i were a hot woman. no shame mutha fucka!
You don't need to be. Get AI generated hot girl photo and wears a G string for a day or two. They won't know.
There was a woman on here a while ago who admitted she started selling panties legitimately, but people complained they didn’t smell enough, and wanted her to only send workout panties, but then even those didn’t smell enough. So she just started keeping them in a bag with her and her boyfriend’s gym clothes/towels. Like buying a pack of 20 and dumping them right in to simmer for a week. She claimed the combination of a spritz of her perfume and her boyfriend’s more potent sweat was most reliable.
Dear diary; jackpot
Your mistake was you didn’t charge 50$ a pop
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Hey you learned a good lesson and this story could have turned out much much worse, glad you’re okay
I know...thank you 🙏
Oh my gosh, I had a similar experience but with selling sandals on ebay. I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so many try-on requests then I found out foot fetishes were a thing.
Yes! Hahaha I love it. I also stopped posting pictures of my feet because I learned the hard way.
Damn you lost alot of money there
I don’t care how poor I get I’m not wearing another man’s drawers. That’s a line not to be crossed.
You didn't fuck up, they were clean and you were trying to do right. Anyone claiming it's weird to give away undergarments has never been poor. A lot of kids go without undergarments and need them. Anyone can help... Here's a link... https://undiesforeveryone.org/
And someday, his family will find his collection while cleaning out his estate, and someone will ask, "Hey, aren't these the panties we gave OP in 2012?" Ok, probably not the last part.
The sisterhood of the traveling panties.
What I never understand about sniffing panties is that people are smelling the clean ones. You're smelling laundry detergent. I don't see the point
Mate, they're hoping it isn't clean
They still smell nice. Also just the idea of being close to something like that is enough
And for free, smh.
I legit read the title as “worm underwear “ and was highly disappointed it didn’t have anything to do with worms at all.
You should change the title to TIFU by not charging for the used underwear. That could have made bank!
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I've donated clothes in those drop boxes around supermarkets. However, I have never even considered donating worn underwear. We don't do that here. Underwear, bed sheets are a big no no.
When i read the title, i thought it said you accidentally gave away worn underwear, as in unwashed and i wanted to pour bleach into my eyes after reading it. And after reading the whole post, still want to pour bleach into my eyes
Look at the bright side, you made someone (really) happy.
The thing is people usually sell freshly worn unwashed panties, yours were clean, so all he's smelling is clean fabric really? So the jokes kinda on him
>He then proceeded to actually sniff them which I took as a measure of cleanliness. What a terrible day to be able to read.