Don’t you just love taking a little break and peeking into other people’s lives? Well, today we’re doing just that by looking at the best real life stories from around the web.
A Welsh teacher breaks bad like Walter White
If you’ve watched Breaking Bad, you might recognise the premise: a chemistry teacher uses his knowledge of chemicals to start manufacturing illegal drugs to ease money woes. But this isn’t a TV show. It’s what really happened to Macphallen Kuwale.
The secondary school chemistry teacher had a cocaine lab in his home, complete with over 100 grams of cocaine, nearly £1 million worth of cutting agents and a pressing machine which made his drugs look more expensive. Police discovered all this and his methods for distributing the cocaine after they arrested the father of two.
When he was arrested, Kuwale insisted he only got in the game to ease his money woes and that he was holding the drugs for someone else. The courts didn’t buy it, handing him a three and a half year jail term. The General Teaching Council Wales (GTCW) didn’t buy it, either, banning him completely from teaching.
The real life pair who ‘consciously uncoupled’ and still go on holiday together!
Diana and Alan met and fell in love, having their sons Tom and Charles in 1993 and 1991, respectively. They tied the knot in 1994, but they decided to divorce ten years later, in 2004, when they realised they had simply drifted apart. Once they realised they didn’t hate each other, they were able to reach a quick and amicable divorce. They even went on family holiday to Thailand a month after the divorce.
As if that’s not enough, Alan introduced Diana to her new partner, Dave, and the three of them often spend time together, too.
Of course, it’s great if you can have such a stress-free divorce, but how realistic is it? Diana reckons it could be more common, saying, ” Parents should try to put their differences aside and keep life as normal as possible… Life is better than ever for us now and we’re living proof that Gwyneth and Chris’s theory works.”
83-year-old pensioner searches for old flame he hasn’t seen in 55 years
Herbert Riley fell in love with a girl named Reeni in Stockport in 1955. They had a love affair lasting four years, when something terrible happened: ” One day we had a row and she went to Scotland with a friend where she met someone else and our relationship just came to an end.” Just six weeks later, she had married the new man and disappeared from his life altogether.
He moved on, marrying his wife Margaret in 1959. But she fell ill with leukaemia and died seven years later, in 1963. He carried on, until sometime in the 1980s, when he heard Reeni was living in Manchester. He didn’t have the courage to get in touch then, but now he’s ready to reunite with her. To that end, he’s printed off 10,000 flyers with the hope that someone will know how to reach her again.
And why is he going through all this, besides just a desire to see her again? He plans on leaving her his estate, as his only surviving family members – his brothers – don’t need his money.
Hopefully this search will have the happy ending he hopes for after all.
These real life stories show just how weird and wonderful life can be. So what do you think? Is ‘conscious uncoupling’ realistic? Should a pensioner leave his life savings to a girlfriend he hasn’t seen in five decades? Let us know in the comments.
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