Sometimes, a photo perfectly encapsulates a larger tale of drama, frustration or hilarity . You hardly need anybody to fill in the blanks for you — it’s just that telling, just that relatable , just that clear.
Today, we’d like to focus on those pics that are attached to a larger story. Think of it as a safari of human experience. Let’s dig in.
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“For a month, I thought I lost my wedding ring on a cross country road trip. I called gas stations, pawn shops, searched lost and found post. Finally, I gave up ever seeing it again when we realized it was under my husband’s deodorant!”
No one ever thinks to look under the deodorant spinny thing, do they? It’s literally the last place I would ever search. Well, maybe next time it’ll be the first.
“It ain’t stupid if it works.”
When my AC broke, I just cracked the windows and sweated it out. But if I’d had…checks pic…a cooler, some PVC pipe, a plastic bag, tape and lots of time, I could have done something like this.
“Who’s laughing now?”
The world is full of confusing and hilarious car mods, but it isn’t often that you see them working out quite this well. I’ll bet it still looks dumb when it’s out of the water, though.
“A large rock crushed my food on a recent backpacking trip. Had to walk 12 miles and over 2000 feet with a 40 pound bag to get to the car because a helicopter ride is too expensive.”
I don’t want to advise people to never go backpacking in the wilderness, but, well, I don’t know how to finish this sentence.
“I ordered a Baconator fry from Wendy’s and got 6 cooked hamburger patties instead and I don’t know what to do with myself.”
This is better than randomly getting a piece of lettuce or something. But unless this person has burger buns ready to go, it’s still hard to know what to do with it.
“I can’t find the culprit that left this in my house…”
Pictures like this make me very grateful that I live somewhere cold enough to keep massive snakes and poisonous creepy-crawlies at bay. How would you even sleep after finding this?
“Flight got delayed a few hours. Planned to get a drink until I realized I forgot a charging cable. $20 for this.”
There’s nothing like being unexpectedly stranded at the airport and realizing you have nothing to distract yourself with for the next few hours.
“On my way to the market I stepped in a bit of mud.”
If you average things out here between the muddy and clean shoes, you’d be left with two moderately muddy shoes. I don’t know if that outlook helps or not.
“When you’re on a two way road and the person behind you won’t turn off the high beams.”
I find this one very relatable. Car headlight technology has come so far that it feels like everyone has high beams nowadays.
“Well, it is not a good idea to clean the screen of the Macbook with glass cleaner.”
This person needs to do what the rest of us do: clumsily wipe the screen with their sleeve until it’s pitted and scratched.
“Accidentally kicked this off of a 6 inch ledge onto a shag carpet. WHY?!”
This is a good way to ensure that the vacuum cleaner will be picking up stray BBs and rattling them around for the rest of time.
“Craft fair where I live.”
I appreciate this shirt, because I think many of us can relate. Like, I’d quit my job and start an OnlyFans if it would pay the bills, but I don’t think anyone would buy in.
“My sister in law just sent me a viral video on Tik Tok of someone with the same air purifier as me going to change the filter and realizing the filter had never been taken out of the package. Naturally I go to check mine and sure enough!! I have been using this every single day for 6 months.”
There are two ways to view this: a pessimist might be bummed that air hasn’t been filtered for months, while an optimist would be excited to get a fresh air filter.
“I deliver for Amazon, this came up halfway through my route. A little drastic I’d say.”
How heavy are the objects this person is ordering that they might be enough to entomb them inside their house? At least their cat will have plenty to eat, I guess.
“I think this picture speaks for itself…”
Monopoly is a game that lends itself well to rage quits, but it takes a special kind of sore loser to flip the table entirely. Honestly, it’s probably better than sitting through a four-hour game.
“My dog hanging out in the exact spot we tried to keep her out of.”
This is a spot where reverse psychology might work: emphasize and protect a different corner of the yard, then hope the dog takes the bait and seeks it out.
“Moved in with my brother and fiancé. I think they might be monsters.”
Depending on what side of the overhand/underhand TP debate you sude with, this pic will either be disturbing or not a big deal at all. In any event, I don’t approve of that toothpaste squeeze.
“So how is your morning going?”
If you like your eggs salty in the morning, well…this would still probably be a little too salty for your tastes. Maybe the next round of eggs will work out a little better.
You can just see the dogs judging their human.
My favorite part of this one isn’t the fact that the bed is so comically small, it’s that these two dogs are looking at their human like they’re a total idiot.
“Sunk my four wheeler while looking for my phone that also sunk.”
They call them all terrain vehicles, but word to the wise: several feet underwater does not really constitute terrain in the same way. Maybe a winch will be able to yank this out.
