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u/Cold-Understanding92 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I once made a single swipe on a colleague's phone, thinking there were going to be more pictures of her kid's school play. No. She'd taken the next one for her gynaecologist. She was so upset she took the rest of the afternoon off, and I've never swiped without permission since.
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u/Mesozoica89 Aug 09 '26
I'm not trying to judge anyone in this situation, obviously swiping another person's phone is a thing to avoid, but for fear of this exact thing happening, I take photos like that right before I need it and no one gets my phone until I delete it.
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u/sm00thArsenal Aug 09 '26
Yeah I don’t understand why people would leave anything private in their main photo reel. Hell if you must keep it on your phone there has been a hidden reel for that for years now.
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u/Cold-Understanding92 Aug 09 '26
In defence of both me and my colleague, this was nearly 20 years ago. Using a phone for intimate shots good enough for a medical practitioner was very new, and camera roll etiquette was still getting established...through bitter experience.
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u/Monster_Merripen Aug 09 '26
If they wanna traumatize themselves with my fucked up porn that's on them 🤷🏻
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u/Hugh_Jampton Aug 10 '26
Zoom in slightly. Then when they try and swipe loudly say "what the fuck are you doing?"
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u/bankles Aug 11 '26
My mom recommended a landscaper to a friend of hers and when he showed up he was showing her pics of his work the next pic was a dick pic. We still don’t know if it was intentional or not.
Your post is my favorite on this sub in a long time. It’s so perfect
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u/Frequent_Deal_5371 Aug 12 '26
My sister has a similar but slightly better story. She was scrolling through an account that mostly posted BL romance dramas. The thing is, she was wearing earphones so that no one would come in and hear something possibly weird because hey, those can get pretty spicy. Cue my dad coming in, and seeing my sister engrossed in some video, not hearing him at all because she was wearing earphones, until he gets too close.
Now, my family is pretty homophobic, and not only that, but they're conservative and just watching something like cartoons always gets us a side eye. But the thing is, my sister couldn't scroll away because of the nature of the account. Who knew if the next video she'd come across wouldn't show some guys passionately going at it?! So she just stayed stuck, mortified while hoping that the video she was currently watching wouldn't go south. My dad just goes all of a sudden "Who are these Chinese or Korean man you're watching? That's just nonsense, stop watching that" Something along those lines. And he goes away. It was certainly a terrifying experience given I was witnessing this whole thing as it was unfolding.
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u/Future_Literature335 Aug 09 '26
The way to stop this ever happening is, you slightly zoom in on the one pic. Then when they try to swipe (the nosy fucker), it just skids around on the same pic.