Real Life Stories of People Who Took One For The Team

Raise a toast to the heroes who put others before themselves, who brave terrifying conditions, social ridicule, legal troubles, or physical harm to help out their friends. Here are some stories of real life champs who made a sacrifice and took one for the team.

Good Guy Colleague

I had a junior developer on my team that made a mistake. He had only been there a few months and although the mistake was easy to make, it would end up costing the company $40k. I was a senior dev and relatively untouchable due to a lot of fixed mistakes that others had made.

For two days management was talking about who made the mistake and what they would need to do. As soon as I realized who it was (he was unaware at that point that he had done it wrong) I said I did it.

Nobody said another word about it except me who quietly explained the correct way to push code changes to the junior dev. Story credit: Reddit / Technical-Bet-2023

Saved The Wedding

My friend picked out terrible bridesmaid dresses. If you can picture it: Structured goldenrod cheap transparent chiffon with a body clinging tank top slip the size of a napkin underneath. Sort of that twee shabby chic prairie style that was en vogue a decade ago.

All the bridesmaids hated them but bride friend was type A and no one wanted to complain. I fell on my sword and begged her to let me pick something different because of my weight, as I was the chonkiest one in the party. I absolutely refused to stand in front of people in that handkerchief.

She wanted everyone to match so she switched to a much more flattering one. I got a group hug from all the bridesmaids in secret. It’s been a decade and she still brings it up occasionally that the first dress was fine and everyone else liked it. Story credit: Reddit / throneofthornes

Smelt it Dealt it

Was in a car ride with my GF and some family, my GF lets out a nasty fart, and my uncle starts complaining about the smell.

It was the first time my GF met these people, and I figured it would be super awkward if they figured it was her, so I took responsibility for the fart. Besides some more complaints directed at me, nothing else happened.

The fart was so stinky so I don’t blame them for complaining at all. Story credit: Reddit / DellSalami

College Hero

Took a class in college that I didn’t want to take but if I didn’t, the class couldn’t be run and two other people would not be able to graduate. Story credit: Reddit / -Firestar-