Much of what goes down in life is completely out of our hands. There’s nothing we could have done to change, prevent , or influence it, no matter how much our hindsight wants to tell us that’s the case.
The people featured in this list know this well, as they faced just some of the worst luck they could have with no way for it to have gone any differently.
“The new jar of Nutella my girlfriend tried to heat in the microwave.”
I question how long she had this in the microwave for if the entire jar is now a rock-solid fossil of what it once was. Thirty minutes? An hour? Did neither of you smell the molten death experiment that was happening before it got this bad?
“Time to go to bed! Huh…what are those dots on my wall? Oh. Oh NO.”
In a caption to the first photo, the uploader wrote, “Should I just burn my house down?” The answer to that is clearly, obviously, evidently, without a doubt yes. Do it now. Please. Save us all from this plague.
“Ordered a ‘salad’ from a local pizza joint. This is what I got…”
What would be a saving grace for most people forcing themselves through a diet has actually bothered you, which is valid of course, but it’s also very funny. Maybe the pizza place was confused why you’d order a salad from them out of anywhere in your city.
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“Spent $150 on my first glass blowing class. Promptly dropped the bowl I made after bringing it home.”
Well, at least that doesn’t erase the new skill you learned and the joy you felt from expressing yourself through art? No, it kind of does, actually. Any chance that same place has a class on how to repair broken blown glass?
“Tried ripping out an old nail/coat hanger. My hammer said […] no.”
The uploader added, “Always spend the extra few bucks on tools.” How much did this hammer cost, then, $1? Was it on discount for a ‘defect’ you never bothered to learn about and now here you are?
“New lights in my mustang! ……then literally 10 minutes later.”
When someone asked what happened, OP replied, “A semi in front of me hit a car wheel in the road and it flew out from under it and hit me.”
These sorts of things always seem to sting more right after doing some nice upgrades or repairs, huh?
“[Cat’s] favorite flavor was out of stock so I bought $10 worth of other ones in hopes she would eat them, she didn’t…”
My cat is similar but in a way where she’ll suddenly get bored of the food I’ve been feeding her for months, so now I have to go out and buy a new flavor to keep things fresh while still having a ton of her old taste leftover.
“A leak under the hot tub during winter.”
Are we sure this is just a hot tub leak and not some sort of ice wraith hidden underneath your porch? It would explain the random icy blasts piercing your walls and the haunting, eerie wailing you hear from beneath your deck at night.
“I hoped my truck repairs would cost $300 max.”
Yeah, we all do, don’t we? At this point I’ve stopped getting my hopes up whenever I have to go to the mechanic, I’ve just accepted that they’ll bleed me dry every time and I’ll still pay because I need to go places.
“Got stung by a wasp in the middle of a snow storm.”
Aren’t we all a little grouchy during snowstorms? It’s stressful weather. He was probably hoping to chill through the winter and find his troupe again in the summer, then some human had to come along and jostle all his stuff. I’d be annoyed too!
“Stuck in France at 2 in the morning as the hotel’s closed, after telling them we’d be arriving at 2.”
This is very far from the romantic getaway most people envision when they see themselves vacationing to France, but honestly, arriving anywhere at 2 AM isn’t a very glamorous way to start any trip.
“Postman ruined my day, and I ruined one of my cups trying to get it out.”
Package delivery workers seem to fall on a spectrum between ‘care too much about the packages’ and ‘care too little about the packages,’ but they never fall in the middle, only at the two ends. This one cared too much, but just in the wrong way.
“Accidentally dropped and thus spilled my cough syrup into this change holder in my car.”
This looked like it poured itself out for you into a convenient little cup! Clearly you purchased it because you’re feeling sick, so they said hey, why not down this right now so the drowsiness will hit right when you get home?
“Friend’s charger at school broke apart and a piece is now stuck in outlet.”
Since this happened at a school and that means there are hundreds of potential suspects, it’s no longer your problem and is instead the problem of whoever reports it to…the janitor? I don’t actually know who would fix this.
“Dropped a whole bottle of hot sauce.”
Something about hot sauce really does make it the most tragic condiment to have go to waste like this. Maybe because it lasts so long as people tend to only use a little at a time, a sparse delicacy for those of us with sensitive palettes.
“My husband’s OnePlus started smoking and then… melted/disintegrated…”
Better for it to melt than to explode. Like, either isn’t a great option, sure, but if it has to self-destruct, better for it to do so in a way that poses the least potential risk to the owner! As long as you’re not counting chemical burns.
“Stumbled upon this on my walk this morning. Someone is not happy lol.”
Someone’s not happy right now, no, but they’ll be very happy when spring rolls around and that ice melts away! It’s like a present from the universe, but that present is a wet, probably broken AirPod. No one said the universe was good at buying gifts.
“There was a blizzard last night so we decided to check on our car…”
You have the perfect photo to send to your boss that’ll explain why you’re not coming in for the next few days, seeing as that’s how long it’s going to take you to clear a car-sized tunnel out of that lot.
“11:00 last night. Glad no one was hurt and no furniture was underneath it!”
Good for this person for already seeing the bright side of this. It’s easy to let yourself succumb to immediate thoughts of dread and annoyance, so being able to look at this and think “thank goodness no one was hurt” is a real virtue!
“I thought there would be some fancy way of opening it for a straw.”
I admire the choice of a toothbrush. They’re not sharp, they’re made of plastic, and have a high chance of breaking while trying to smash open a can, but you chose it anyway. You really decided to live life on hard-mode today.
