It's happened to everyone.

You're going about your day minding your own business

when suddenly you come across something you weren't supposed to see.

Maybe it was an accidentally displayed nude photograph on somebody's phone

or even suspicious government activity they did their very best to hide.

Stories like these are rarely forgotten,

and one inquisitive reditor called Make Your Marks opened up Pandora's box when he decided to ask the online community, what was something you saw you were definitely not supposed to see?

In many of these cases, the events people unintentionally witnessed held the potential to score them for life, cost

them their jobs or worse. Information is power after all. This Reddit thread now contains

hundreds of accounts of things people weren't supposed to see or hear. So I decided to find

the most intriguing and alarming stories on offer.

Kind of unsurprisingly, a lot of the things on this list take place in bathrooms.

It's a private place where people tend to do things they don't want others to see.

I like to respect people's privacy, but certain behaviors cross the line like this example

from Reddit user Veronix.

When Verenks entered a public bathroom one day, he saw a strange man standing in the middle of the room who appeared to be eating something.

On closer inspection, it turned out that the man was eating a urinal cake.

That's right, one of those weird soap-like things, yep, y' odd.

According to Varynx, the strange man just stared back at him and made awkward eye contact

as he shoved the remainder of the cake into his mouth. Normally, I'd wholeheartedly agree with that

famous phrase, let him eat cake. But in this guy's case, not so much. People love to abuse

their office machinery. The internet is full of clips of

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