You can’t always prove someone wrong, but when you do, it is such a great feeling.
Especially if that person is a real jerk who needs to be put in their place.
And we’re about to sink our teeth into some good stories like that right now.
Folks on AskReddit shared their “I told you so” moments.
Enjoy!
1. Here’s a piece of my mind.
“My newborn baby was projectile vomiting after every feeding. I took her to the doctor several times, always ended up being sent away with suggestions to try a different formula.
I tried like 4 different ones, no change. The 4th or 5th visit, they sent me away again with the same recommendation even though I pleaded with them to figure out what was wrong with my baby. I left the office and drove to the ER instead. She ended up having emergency surgery that day.
The surgeon said she would have starved to death (or maybe dehydrated?) had she gone much longer without the surgery. I gave the doctors in that office a piece of my mind.”
2. Thief!
“Lawyer here.
Fired a partner who I found some real irregularities in their spending habits vs. what they were making after he couldn’t provide a good answer to where it came from.
Other partner left and started a new firm with them because they disagreed with my decision and refused to look at the evidence.
Turns out he stole 500k of a clients money, got disbarred, and is now facing prison time. I told her to look at the evidence and she didn’t listen. “
3. Don’t go that way.
“My sister and I were out sledding when we were kids at this place with a really steep hill. I had unknowingly gone down a sled path that had a jump in it, and when I landed it really hurt my back. So when I got back up to the top of the hill I told my sister “don’t go that way, the jump really hurts”.
She called me a baby and didn’t believe me that it really hurt so she decided she would go down that path on her sled. Well, she hit the jump and didn’t get back up, turns out she fell so hard she had broken her leg. When we finally got her back up the hill and to the car, I got to tell her “I told you so”.”
4. Time to get chewed out.
“I work at a US Navy shipyard.
My worst “I told you so” moment was when a submarine had multiple issues with sanitation/collection tanks and the piping that led from the showers and toilets to the sanitation/collection tanks. Documented and pointed out the same problems over a 12 week period. Supervisors and the tank area manager didn’t give a d**n and pointedly ignored my reports.
Undocking day was approaching and the Captain of the sub wanted the boat out on time. So they moved up the tank closure schedule. So tank closing protocol requires several signoffs: one from a qualified civilian inspector, one from a qualified Navy Hull Technician sailor, and one from a qualified Navy Engineering officer.
That tank in question failed all three concurrent inspections. Undocking got pushed back by 30 days until all problems found were corrected.
Daily operations estimated costs were north of $10,000/day. Factor in the mandatory overtime and rework required and we were looking at maybe triple the daily cost. This is just people’s pay, I didn’t get to see the material cost overrun but I know for a fact that a lot of the materials got shipped in or fabricated in-house overnight.
Needless to say, a lot of people on General Schedule pay got chewed out by the then-Shipyard CO in private.”
5. Scandalous.
“My best friend started dating my ex wife (ten years after the divorce and he checked if id take issue even though he didnt need to) anyway when we divorced it was because she was cheating on me while I was in Afghanistan.
He goes out of state for work and told me she started acting off not answering calls quick to hang up starting fights when hes home or going to parties rather than spend time with him.
I pointed out this is what she did to me almost exactly and stated that if he confronts her on her s**t she will probably with out provocation accuse him of cheating and more to the point most likely because she is actively cheating cue thirty minute monologue of how shes grown up and shes not that person now shes just used to not having to answer to others or having a real relationship in year.
Three hour later he calls because he went to pick up some weed and there she is bl**ing the seller.”
6. Don’t touch that!
“Was picking beans with my sister and mom. To this day I still don’t know why the fence was electric but it was. I touched it and I got zapped.
It wasn’t too bad but it hurt. I jumped away and my sister saw me, I said that it was an electric fence. Of course she just thought I was pranking her. I was trying to tell her the whole time we picked beans but she didn’t believe me.
Right at the end she touched the fence and she didn’t see it coming at all… Her face was just like, “Oh shi-”
Loved the car ride home, “I told you… Idiot.””
7. Gotta get it checked out.
“Had a weirdly dark freckle. The color of chocolate.
I showed spouse and he called me a hypochondriac and if I go to a doctor, I’d be wasting their time.
I went to the dermatologist. It was melanoma.”
8. Take that, Mom!
“Since I was 14, my throat got itchy when I ate apples.
I told my mom but she thought I just didn’t want to eat apples and forced me to eat them.
Went to the doctor’s office and got a test for allergies. Turns out, I’m allergic to apples, peaches, and many other fruits.”
9. Don’t drink and drive.
“In high school I was at a party where everyone was getting drunk.
I had come with two friends and near the end of the night this one guy there was losing everyone into his van to get late night food. He swore he was not drunk and there were so many people in his car, including the two people I came with, it was not a battle I was going to win.
But it seemed like an obviously dumb situation; bunch of underage kids packed into a van driving around in the suburbs at 1:00 in the morning. I told my friends that this wasn’t a good idea and they need to get out of the van and come back gone with me (my house was within walking distance). They acted like I was a party p**per for a sec but then they got out.
Next day I find out the guy driving ram a red light and got t-boned by a truck. The one kid in the back almost died and everyone got banged up. The friends I pulled out of the van were in the backseat along with him.
Not saying I saved their lives but… I really may have saved their lives.”
10. Just do it!
“I spent months telling my mother to get a dash camera, I even sent her a link to a cheap one on Amazon so she would at bare minimum have something.
Some time later she got a new car and in less than a week she got into an accident (she was fine), but because she couldn’t prove that the other driver was at fault their insurance company would only pay for some of the damage (car was totaled).
The worst part is that she still hasn’t gotten a d**n camera…”
11. Tried to warn you.
“I once owned a dog who was very stubborn and independent. She lived a feral life in the mountains as a young pup, and I feel like that played a role. She felt more like a roommate than a pet.
She was having heart trouble when she got older so she had to get a chest scan at the vet. These two men came out to get her, so I gave them a heads up that she would absolutely dislike being flipped on her back and held there for the scan (flipping a dog on it’s back is putting it in a pretty submissive position).
One of the guys interrupted me and basically said they were professionals and I had to just let them work. They snapped a muzzle on her and took her to the back.
A few seconds pass, then I hear a crash and a few yells. One of the guys who took her comes out and sheepishly asks for my help.
It turns out as soon as they flipped her on her back she kicked out of their arms, unclipped her muzzle, removed it with her front paws, then made a mad dash for freedom.
I caught her roaming around the back of the vet’s office and she was perfectly well behaved while I held her for the scan. I felt bad for two guys she escaped from, but I had tried to warn them.”
Have you ever had an “I told you so” moment?
If so, please share them with us in the comments.
Thanks a lot!
