Stunning Real Life Surprises That Left the People They Happened to In Awe
Sometimes life throws you a curveball that you didn’t see coming, and whether it’s for the better or the worse, it can change your life completely.
These real life stories threw people for a loop when they discovered that what they thought was true was just the surface of a much, much bigger mystery that they never thought possible.
Love Triangle
At a wedding reception of a college friend of my husband’s, we went over to our table and introduced ourselves while we waited for the bride and groom to arrive.
As soon as we came over, they all went pale. They were horrified that we were there—and extremely worried.
That’s when we learned that the bride (my husband’s old friend) had been in love with him for over a decade. My husband had NO idea that she had feelings for him. And we did NOT escape unscathed.
She bee-lined right for our table after the “introducing Mr & Mrs” thing—ignoring her family and leaving her husband standing alone. She clung to my husband and sobbed—lifting her head to glare at me. She eventually had to be pulled off of him.
She repaired herself, then followed us as we tried to leave quietly—her parting shot was to stare at my chest and say, “Well I guess I know what I was missing all along!”
Her new husband was in shock and my husband was horrified and embarrassed—he was completely clueless and would never have gone to the wedding if he’d known she was obsessed with him. It was bizarre.
Secret Double-Life
In primary school, we had a WWI-memorial lesson and we were asked if anyone had any relatives who fought at the time. My friend brought in a picture of his great, great grandfather with his wife.
A girl also brought in a picture of her great, great grandfather with his wife. Ok, sure, all normal up until now.
This is when the dark truth came out. The teacher said they looked similar.
She put them side-by-side and looked shocked. We gathered around, and it was the same man, who had kept his two wives a secret. Both had been married privately. My classmates were cousins and didn’t even know.
What Are the Odds?
I graduated law and got engaged to the girl I had been with through university. We both applied for the same graduate program and ended up working in the same office in Canberra. Three months before our wedding, I found out she was cheating on me with our mutual boss, and I broke it off with her.
It really broke my heart, and took a long time to get over. Long story short, it got really, really ugly, and the two of us ended up in a very bitter court case over the property we had.
Canberra is a pretty small city and the law world is pretty bloody small there, too, and everywhere I went I bumped into my ex.
It was beginning to seriously get me down, and her too. I had to do something about it. I applied for an Australian government overseas development job in Tuvalu, a Pacific island with about an 11,000 population.
It’s quite a prestigious job to get, with only two positions offered for a two-year contract on a rotating basis. I was successful in the application and moved on-island to start my posting.
And then it all went to heck.
I got there, only to discover that my ex was the other successful applicant. I spent the next two years sharing a tiny office on a tiny island with the person that I quite honestly loathe more than any other person in the world.
The Winner Takes it All
I’m an estate lawyer. I had a client who was a son who did not really talk to his father. Still, he wanted to make sure the father’s estate was wrapped up properly. They did not know if a will existed but knew that his dad had a safety deposit box.
So, we get a court order to open the box, and sure enough, a will was there. However, the will left a lion’s share of his estate…to a woman no one knew. In with the will were also pictures of a naked woman and a stage name; something like “cinnamon” or “candy,” written on the back.
Soon, the bizarre truth became obvious. The father had left part of his estate to a dancer whom he enjoyed visiting in his older age. She had no idea and they had to track her down, which was a nightmare.
They finally found her and she came to the office for a check accompanied by a “male friend.”