Sometimes, things just aren’t going to go your way.
That’s okay, though. It’s part of life. Eventually, the odds should work out in your favor.
At the very least, try to take solace in the fact that you’re hardly the only person who’s having a rough day . For example, the folks below, who are about due for a win after what they’ve been through.
“I put the fries in the oven.Turns out the cutboard was stuck under the pan and has now melted. I take the fries out, clean the oven. I put back the fries. Well… the other cutboard was also stuck under.”
On the plus side, they came out of this whole ordeal with some cool blue plastic art. And they’ll probably never forget their cutting boards in the oven ever again.
“My dog launched her foot off my unopened drink on her way out the car.”
I have some sympathy for this person, sure. But if you have an excitable dog in the car, chalk this one up to a lesson learned.
“Just arrived for a two week dogsitting job and smashed my back windshield on the storage cupboards in their garage. I found something to spend the money I’m earning on!”
I’ve got a policy surrounding garages I’m not familiar with: don’t try to park your car in them. And judging by this person’s experience, it’s a pretty sound policy.
“Please wear bug spray.”
I like summer as much as the next guy, but looking at a pic like this (or, even worse, experiencing something like this) makes me long for the cold, bug-free days of the winter months.
“Don’t forget to tighten the filter.”
We fill cars with the kind of noxious substances we’d never want to spill in our garage, and yet we park our cars in garages. At a certain point, fate has been tempted enough.
“Came home from vacation to find a bear had broken into my house.”
Everyone’s afraid of an intruder getting into their home while they go away on vacation. But usually they’re thinking of a human burglar, not some kind of bear bandit. I shudder to think of the smell it might have left behind.
“The boss backed into the garage door at work today.”
If there’s any consolation here, it’s that the boss screwed up. That basically gives every other employee who works there a little extra leeway to be sloppy for the next while.
“Found this massive paper wasp nest in my shed.”
There are two schools of thought when it comes to encountering something like this: those who poke it with a broomstick and then throw a bucket on it when it falls, and those who call the professionals.
“When it’s early and your mind wanders while making coffee.”
This is the kind of unforced error where you only have yourself to blame, but it still destroys just a bit of your soul. It’s an eternal dilemma, too — it all happened making the morning coffee, and it might have been prevented by that morning coffee.
“Full jar of minced garlic.”
Garlic smells awesome when it’s fresh, then it just gets worse and worse as time goes on. I don’t think this kitchen or this fridge will ever be smell-free again after experiencing this catastrophic spill.
“I work at a college dorm. This week is freshman move in where I’m working a 12 hour shift. I was told not to pack a lunch because a free one is provided.”
Gotta love it when you could have packed a meal, but are told not to, then receive something like this. As bait-and-switches go, this might go from jerk territory into downright evil.
“Someone locked my bike with their own bike lock.”
I’ve had this happen to me before and it’s the worst. You have to decide whether you’ll walk home, or wait around all day on the off-chance that the owner of the lock eventually returns.
“This was my $15 dessert at a fancy restaurant. A tablespoon of ganache with a crouton on top.”
I have a morbid curiosity in just how much fancy restaurants get away with. Not only is this not worth $15, the two flavors wouldn’t even mesh well with each other.
“So part of the automated chicken feeding system broke today…”
This might have been a bad day for the farmer, but for the chickens, it was the blessed day that Food Mountain bloomed overnight, providing them with unlimited chicken feed.
“This ‘chocolate’ pie from 7-Eleven.”
Look, I get it: the ‘chocolate’ looks like some kind of beef slurry and the crust looks diseased. But if you’re the type of person who gets chocolate pie from 7-Eleven, you should already know you’re taking a gamble.
“When you don’t properly secure your load.”
The driver was apparently unharmed after this incident, but looking at the pics, it’s hard to imagine how. They easily could have been impaled by that wood. This whole scenario constitutes serious nightmare fuel.
“Well that’s 500 hours down the drain, this is what happens when you have toddlers that get into your games and a puppy to find them and chew them to pieces.”
Fun fact: Switch cartridges are coated in a chemical that makes them taste bad. This doesn’t always deter puppies, however, because they’re relentless chew beasts.
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“Every single concert when you’re short.”
The short person who took this pic is most definitely due for a win. But unless they’re still growing, the only win that’s really going to help them here would come in the form of a stepladder.
“Paint crew on my roof dropped a paint can on my balcony and tried to sweep it up with my personal broom.”
You’d think that people who paint professionally would realize that a broom is not the right tool to clean up spilled paint.
