Often, movies get depictions of jobs completely, embarrassingly wrong (looking at you, successful one-article-a-week columnist Rebecca Bloomwood from Confessions Of A Shopaholic ). And that’s before we even get started on the medical , historical , and technological mistakes films routinely make for the sake of a great scene.

But a post shared to Reddit’s r/movies proves that not every apparent exaggeration is as inaccurate as it seems.

Writing to the forum, site user u/diapersareforgods asked: “Are there any moments in movies that people often call out as ‘Hollywood exaggeration’ or ‘totally unrealistic,’ but you’ve lived through something just like it?”

Here are some of the most-upvoted responses:

1) “I saw someone on Twitter [now X] griping about how, in movies, supp

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