16+ Awful Designs That Never Should've Been Approved

But as the uploader learned the hard way when they walked into the pole, it's an even weirder decision when it's surrounded by signs telling you to look away from it.

I'm no architect but I'm positive I've been to hotels that managed to hold their ceilings up without turning their walkways into obstacle courses.

Imagine trying to guide a heavy suitcase through this.

Nonetheless, it seems they saw fit to individually wrap each slice of bread in plastic despite banning all other forms of plastic including lamination.

To say the least, they seem to be working at cross-purposes here.

I guess whoever made this is the same type of person who clicks "I'm feeling lucky" when they google something.

Which one is the cold water impostor?

This sign appears to want us to sit down but acts like this person is bad for doing just that.

Apparently, this sign is supposed to encourage social distancing but it just seems to encourage confusion.

I'm sure a lot of advertisers wish they could put ads in our dreams but this is the first one to actually pull it off.

After all, nightmares still count as dreams.

Mind you, I suppose this is more inconvenient for them than it is for any of us. I can't help but wonder, though: did they have to do this in every room?

So not only does it seem like they can't pull the screen down anymore but it's guaranteed to get in the way while people are trying to take notes.

Just...why?

Even as a kid, I think I'd have to squish myself pretty tight into that kitty corner to actually close the door.

Even if I were 100 pounds lighter, I wouldn't have a ghost of a chance now.

Like, either they expect kids to jam their way through that archway at once like the Three Stooges or rush in immediately after each other like paratroopers while also controlling which way they're going.

At best, it's a pointless design.

After all, since someone decided to cut a hole in the wall instead, it turns out that people in entirely different bathrooms can now see each other.

No matter which side people are looking through, somebody's privacy is getting violated.

Either I'm seriously out of touch or people don't usually spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars so they can look sketchy.

It's like a hair salon boasting about their ability to make you look like a Karen.

As we can see here, it just looks weird when people try to stretch someone around a column like this.

And it's hard to imagine a children's book section being that successful if kids are too creeped out to go anywhere near it.

It's kind of tough for that to have any use when everything in it is just varying shades of gray, isn't it? I just hope this wasn't sold at college textbook prices because yikes!

Sure, "let it flow everybody" might be kind of awkward without the comma and "let it flow everywhere" might make people giggle but at least those do something with that E.

They might as well have just said, "let it flow ehh, who cares?"

I guess we're supposed to put a dramatic pause between each word for this to make any sense.

Because if you don't do a Captain Kirk impression when you read this, it just sounds like a vaguely inspirational word salad.

And since architects usually have more to their design philosophy than "because it would be cool," I'm going to assume it's the second one.

People may have bumped their heads on the sharply declining ceiling whenever they walked into my childhood bedroom but at least they could take showers in peace.

In fairness, this likely has more to do with the fact that old houses weren't made with standing showers in mind than any specific person's incompetence.

So either things have gone way downhill in the 20 years since I've ordered a Happy Meal or we're looking at some fluke defect. Because Pikachu is normally, adorable, not terrifying.

Honestly, who decided to give him realistic looking teeth?

It's apparently like this because you're toggling the mute on and off but they still have to admit that's a really counter-intuitive way to design something.