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20 people share the wildest things that happened on a 'non-typical' work day.

The weirdest and most chaotic days at work often make for the best stories down the road. Even the most predictable of jobs can turn into a riveting essay if you deal with a deeply unhinged customer, and a brief disaster can turn the workplace into entertaining mayhem.While the ideal work day is smooth and easy, the second best thing is a work day full of amusing chaos you can regale your friends with over happy hour drinks.In a popular thread, the Reddit user nonoriginalname shared a bizarre workplace anecdote, and urged others to chime in with their own &quot;non-typical work day&quot; stories.Suffice it to say, the internet delivered the goods.1. OP kicked the thread off festively. Here is the story. The lady was cruising around in a mart cart filling it will all kinds of glorious snack cakes and the like when she went to reach for some frozen Chinese food. She over reached and fell right on the floor lodging herself between the cart and the freezer door. She couldn&#39;t stand up on her own and the three employees helping her couldn&#39;t lift her so they went and got a pallet, rolled her up on it and then used the forklift to stand her up and slide her back into the cart. It was really something I was not expecting to do at work today but seeing as how is &#39;MURICA&#39; it doesn&#39;t surprise me. 2. donqiote13 had their day saved by a Pepsi truck driver. The police gave us a list complete with mugshots of problem drinkers who are not to be served alcohol. My store was about 3 weeks late receiving the list because of an oversight. Being a relatively small town, several of the problem drinkers (mostly vagrants) began to frequent the store during this time as it was the only place still serving them.  We finally get the list and comply to stop serving them alcohol, they are not pleased. So in some twisted sense of logic about 15 of them got high on paint (I assume they were because their faces were covered in gold paint) and storm in the store in an effort to steal/force our hand in serving them.  A coworker of mine attempts to strong arm them out, with little success, so they start grabbing cases and kicking over displays. The Pepsi truck driver is outside at the time and is witnessing all of this, as they are leaving the store. He cracks open a 12 pack and starts tossing Dr. Pepper at the people robbing us. He nailed about four of them and the rest dropped the beer and scattered. He said he used to pitch in HS, and without his intervening we would have lost hundreds of dollars in beer.  TLDR Bums rushed the store; Pepsi driver saves the inventory by knocking several unconscious with cans of Dr. Pepper. 3. Wikiwikiwichita witnessed drunk men literally drive into their building. A couple of drunk dudes drove their truck into my building, and by into I mean crashed into brick wall and front bumper was actually inside the coffee room. They both decided to run away on foot, but left their wallets and vehicle registration in the truck. The crash was at 1:30 PM, they were arrested by 3 PM. 4. lopo4 got to ride jet skis on the job. I work at a dock: After working a 10 hour shift on a busy day my boss informed me that We got a new gas line and had to run the air out of it. This involved pumping 10 gallons out first to get to the air. Instead of filling up gas cans like a normal person, my boss tosses me a ski jacket and tells me to run 10 gallons of gas out of the jet skis.... AWWWWWW YEEEEEAAAAH.  Tldr: I got to ride jet skis for 2 hours on the clock. 5. InferiousX sometimes got paid to chill at a casino. One of my bosses in Vegas was a gambling addict.  Sometimes he&#39;d have like a breakdown and decide to take me to the casino while he played video poker. So I&#39;d go find a table game to play, or just go get drunk while he did this. He&#39;d always pay me my hourly rate too. Those were my favorite days. 6. c_is_4_cookie was just glad they could help a single mom. I tutored physics in grad school to make some extra money. My rate was $10/hour or $15/hour for a 2 person session ($7.50 per person). I got a pretty wide variety of students, some just needed a 1 or 2 sessions to understand a concept, some just wanted help before a test, and a few wanted to meet weekly for the entire semester.  One of my pupils (for lack of a better word) had a weekly Tuesday appointment. One week she called Tuesday morning to ask if she could move our meeting to Wednesday. No problem. She calls Wednesday and asks if she can move to Thursday. Sure, I have another appointment on Thursday so we can make it a double. Thursday comes and she shows up about 45 minutes late.  The other girl I was tutoring finishes up and leaves for class. I turn my attention to the late girl and she has fallen asleep sitting on the couch in my office. I have other work to do anyway so I grab the blanket I keep in my desk drawer for when I had to work late and would sleep in the office and cover her up.  I just sat at my desk and worked on my analysis code. She slept like that for 4 hours without moving. Around 8pm she wakes up with a start and asks what time it is. She starts crying when she realized she had missed her other class. Not just crying, unreasonable amounts of sobbing. Tissues and a few hugs later and she calms down enough to give me the whole story.  She has a son. Her sitter got sick on Tuesday so she couldn&#39;t come to our session and she couldn&#39;t make it to work after that. She was able to pick up a last minute shift on Wednesday before her regular shift. When she got home Wednesday night she checked on her son and he had a fever. Queue a late night at the hospital. Her mother had driven in to take care of her son since she couldn&#39;t bring him to daycare sick.  She had only slept about 2 hours the night before after working a double shift and she was just exhausted from going to school, raising a son, and working 30 hours per week. She had a decent scholarship, but it didn&#39;t cover everything and she was just trying to finish up her senior year so she could graduate. She wanted to become a teacher. If she didn&#39;t get decent grades this semester she would lose her scholarships and have to drop out next semester, spring semester of her senior year.  By this point the bus to her apartment only runs every hour, so I offer to drive her home. She offers to pay $10 even though we didn&#39;t actually do any studying which I flatly refuse. When we arrive at her apartment I offer her the following. We can still meet once per week in my office, but it has to be after 6:00 when the building empties out. She should bring her son so she doesn&#39;t need to get a sitter. She doesn&#39;t pay me another penny.  She is pretty stunned, but she accepts. She asked why and I told her I had my reasons. We met 11 more times and she brought her son each time. He was shy and liked to color, so I gave him all the paper and markers he could want while he was there. She did pretty well in physics, a solid B if I remember correctly. She kept her scholarship and graduated next semester and I am guessing became a teacher. TL;DR: went from tutor to babysitter in 4 hours, sort of. 7. dickshapedfood got decked by an elderly patient. Last night I had a somewhat confused (but mostly crotchety) elderly patient who kept trying to get out of bed. She has all kinds of drains and oxygen through a hi flow nasal canula that is very important for her continued existence. I had her restraints a little loose so she could blow her nose and use the remote.  My back was turned for about 30 secs and I turn around to see that she has removed EVERYTHING and is standing at the edge of the bed about to head for the door. I rush over and get in front of her to avoid any further damage. Then this completely bald, greenish tinged (chemo, poor oxygenation), 4&#39;10&quot;, 90 lb lady looks up at me and punches me straight in the stomach. TL;DR Got punched in the stomach by Yoda. 8. coldsandovercoats dealt with a Target customer who peed as a protest. We had a serial pisser at Target. Some woman believed that Target hated her and &quot;her people&quot;, as she said, and decided that the best way to handle this was to piss in the fitting room of a suburban Wisconsin Target store every Monday evening.  I was the lucky fitting room attendant the third time she did this, and had our LP guy lurking in the department all evening to try to catch someone. She pissed on a bunch of clothing (that I, of course, had to bag up and dispose of... I wore surgical gloves and a surgical mask and plastic bags on my shoes in case of piss) as well as the floor and the walls and the bench.  When she emerged from the room with a smug look on her face, the AP guy apprehended her and called the cops. She was screaming about how Target hated &quot;her people&quot;. 9. ScatteredMuse dealt with hangry people who didn&#39;t seem to understand power outages. Well, when I used to work at McDonald&#39;s, one day our Ansul system randomly decided to activate over the fryers causing a huge mess. We had to close up the restaurant, trash all the food, and clean everything up. When we reopened a couple hours later, we couldn&#39;t make any fries until the system got looked at, so that was interesting.  We posted signs everywhere and had plenty of asses come in all, &quot;Hurr hurr, I want some fries.&quot; and &quot;Well, I guess we&#39;ll be going to Burger King then!&quot; Yeah, we really don&#39;t care, go away.  Power outages were fun too. We closed up and got to see angry people come through the drive-thru and people pounding on the doors despite all the signs we posted. I don&#39;t know what&#39;s so hard to understand about, &quot;We have no power.&quot; 10. izzeyy saw a man fall through a window and walk away unscathed. I used to work at the local Days Inn. One time, I was walking the yard cleaning up trash and I see this guy fall out of a second story window. I just kinda looked over, and he was falling. At first, I just stared in aww.. then before I could ask if he was okay, he goes.. &quot;Whoops!&quot; and gets up, and shuffles his way back inside. I went to the manager, and we pulled the video up, had a good laugh and then went to talk to the guy.  Turns out, he was just sitting there talking to his wife, and he leaned against the screen and fell through. Everybody was okay, and we all had a good laugh after. 11. Byahhhhh high-fived their friend over an abortion in front of their college tour group. I was giving a tour to 40 people at my university and my old roommate spots me as I&#39;m talking about a building, interrupts with his hand in the air wanting a high five as he shouts &quot;Kelly got the abortion bro, it was free for me too!&quot; I gave him the high five, he ran for joy. The group looked blank faced at me and I said &quot;he would&#39;ve been a terrible father.&quot; 12. hoku worked with a dishwasher who had Karate Kid skills. I work as a chef. My dishwasher at this horrible restaurant was this tiny burmese teenager who practices round house kicks all day. One day a large bat flew into the restaurant. People were screaming and freaking out. I handed him a broom and told him to kill it. He walks out into the dining room, watches the bat for a few moments, then out of no where, lunges swiftly swats the bat with the broom, and kills it. No emotion.  Another time a rat got into the kitchen, and we were all trying to kill it. It had so many places to hide. We couldn&#39;t find the damn thing. So I went to the same dishwasher, googled &#39;rat&#39; on my phone, showed him a picture, and told him to kill it. Walked away for a few moments, when I came back into the kitchen he was holding the thing by it&#39;s tail- its neck had been snapped. It was as large as a zucchini. He would also catch flies between his thumb and index fingers. For fun. Catch and release style. He was convinced Chinese people ate babies as a gourmet meal. I told him that was a ridiculous stereotype. He also believed that Chinese people at dogs. He was a racist, awesome little dishwashing ninja. 13. Kvothe24&#39;s coworker got shot by an angry credit union member. I do first party collections for a credit union. If someone is avoiding, we will sometimes have an agent go knock on their door and ask them to call us/confirm they live there. Apparently, a members spouse did not know about the past due bill. The door knock agent found the member, asked him to call us, and left. Apparently this caused the wife to get suspicious. She found out her husband wasn&#39;t paying his credit card bills and had very large credit card debt, and filed for divorce.  So I come in to work a short time after this, and the member has come into the office and shot our door knock agent in the head. 14. Genghis_John had a fleet of parking enforcement people waiting. I was working at a gas station in Madison, WI some years ago. April 1st came on a Monday, and around 7ish in the morning, all the little go-carts that the parking enforcement people use for the university came to fill up for the day with their motor pool issued credit cards. Well, all the cards expired the last day of March, and that being a Sunday, I guess no one noticed.  Of course, I wouldn&#39;t let anyone leave without paying for the gas they had already pumped, no matter who they worked for. Their supervisor had to come down with fresh credit cards about a half dozen times, and eventually just gave me his personal number to call him back with after a while, since he was tired of getting irate radio calls from the parking cops who were super pissed that I wasn&#39;t letting them leave.  I like to think that I kept a straight face the whole time, but keeping the entire parking enforcement fleet waiting on April Fool&#39;s Day was a whole lot of fun. 15. itsrattlesnake&#39;s work day can look radically different, depending. Typical: Oil goes down the pipe to storage tanks or a pipeline. Gas goes to a big flare. Non-Typical: Oil and gas go to flare, creating a billowing rain of fire. 16. internetsanta still doesn&#39;t know why those guys bought all those doors. I used to work as a cashier at a home improvement store, (the one with the big orange box). We once had a group of four guys come in that had obviously been smoking their fair share of weed. They pulled the truck up right next to the door in an area that is supposed to be just temporary parking while loading vehicles and parked there. Three guys came into the store while one stayed in the truck. They guy that stayed in the truck spent the entire time (about a half hour) just staring straight ahead.  The three guys disappeared into the store but after awhile they came back to checkout and all they had with them was 10 doors. As they were checking out one guy asked me if we had any, and I quote &quot;big f*cking bags of peanuts, cause I could eat a whole bag myself right now.&quot; They payed for the doors loaded them up and left. I heard from coworkers that they came back the next day and returned all but one of the doors. 17. FapToQuines got in a brawl at Burger King. (throw away account, just in case.) Many years ago, I was working the evening shift at a Burger King, sole guy manning the front register. Guy comes in and does a stickup (paper bag around gun, gimmie all your money, now take me to the safe in back...) Big Ed, a co-worker of mine was cleaning the friers out behind me, and heard the verbal go over. (Now, he wasn&#39;t called Big Ed because he was fat, or ironically because he was short, no. Big Ed had shoulders you could use to land airplanes on.)  As I go to lead the guy back (hey, training is &#39;don&#39;t fight them, your life isn&#39;t worth it.&#39; so I do.) As I pass the corner to turn towards the office, Ed&#39;s big hand grabs my shoulder and practically rag-doll throws me behind him. As I hit the floor I see him do the &quot;muscle wizard&quot; I CAST FIST.... wearing the thick rubber &quot;playing with boiling oil&quot; frier gauntlet. Hit him so hard he was unconscious before he slumped to the floor. 18. FryGuy1013 had a deeply uncomfortable moment with a family trying to use the lake. I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve told this story on reddit before, but here it is. I was around 15 and worked my first job over a weekend taking ticket sales for a college rowing event at the a lake about 30 minutes from my house. Things went pretty easy the first day, with taking people&#39;s money and giving them a receipt to park in the parking lot. A few people were upset that they couldn&#39;t use the lake and turned around, and a few people were upset that the prices were higher than they were the last time, but I managed.  On the second day though, a beige station wagon pulled up in the line and I told him how much it was for his car to get into the lake. Inside the car was a black man and his family with two kids around 10 years old in the back seat. He said he didn&#39;t care about the event and just wanted to go fishing in the lake. I told him that I was sorry, but the lake was closed and he wouldn&#39;t be able to fish there today.  He asked if there was any other place he could go fishing. Not being old enough to drive yet, and not living in the area, I didn&#39;t really know the area that well, so I couldn&#39;t answer his question. I told him to wait and I went to ask the guy in charge. The guy in charge told me the closest place he could go to fish. I asked him if that was right, and he said it was. I walked back to the car, and somewhat sheepishly said &quot;I&#39;m sorry sir, but you&#39;re going to have to drive down that road about a mile, and the name of the place is Negro Bar.&quot; He kind of looked at me funny, and then drove off.  TLDR: I told a black family they couldn&#39;t use the lake, and had to go to Negro Bar instead. 19. mirrislegend helped a clearly coked up man find a gun case. When I worked at Sharper Image, I had a business man in a suit come in. He was clearly hopped up on coke or speed or some upper. He asked me for a gun safe. Given his state, I had a mega ಠ_ಠ moment, but caught myself before saying anything. I proceeded to help him find the mini safe we had, that would fit a gun. He said it needs to be really secure, so his toddler doesn&#39;t get into it... 20. hyperkill&#39;s work had a bird visitor. I was working in a printing company and we used to open up an overhead door to keep the pressroom cool. Well, a bird flew into the pressroom and up into the rafters - it can be a very bad situation to have a bird run through the press. This Mexican guy named Pedro grabs this big broom and touches the bird with it, the bird comes flying straight down and he catches it with his bare hands. Despite the bird pecking away at him, he decides it would make a great pet.  He gets a box, puts the bird into it, then seals the box up by tucking the flaps together. When it&#39;s time to go home he puts the bird in the back seat of his car. Pedro and I lived in the same city and took the same route home. I remember driving behind him and then seeing him swerve all over the place all of a sudden. I see his window roll down and then this bird shoots right out of the window as he&#39;s driving. The box had opened up because he did not properly seal it and the bird escaped, flying all over inside of his car.          