There’s absolutely nothing wrong with trying your best and reaching for the stars when it comes to your goals. However, there are limits , and knowing those limits helps keep yourself safe in case you ever get too caught up in your own progression.
The people in this list didn’t know their limits and wound up biting off more than they could chew, getting just a bit too ambitious for their means.
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“Guy dropped a $40,000 pallet of glass on his first day.”
If you’re ever thinking you’re having a bad day at work, you can look back on this post and remind yourself that at least it isn’t this bad.
Unless you’re this guy, in which case…sorry. Your misfortune makes for a great example.
“Wife forgot to take out the cookies we hid from my son in the oven before preheating.”
This is a picture you can smell. Burnt cookies, molten plastic, and the lingering sense of fear that something might still catch on fire as you air your kitchen out and try to prevent the smoke alarm from going off.
“Cut all of the ‘ties’ on my daughters new toy. that gray tie was the wire for the remote.”
Well, that’s hardly your fault. It does look almost identical to a twist tie.
This story does actually have a good ending, as this was only the cord to the ‘try me’ button on the front of the box and not the one for the remote. Yay!
“Accidentally left the stove on all night and burned all the seasoning off my favorite skillet.”
I’m not a cast-iron skillet type of guy, but I know quite a few people who are, and they would weep at this post. All that time spent seasoning and baking on that layer of goodness, burned away in just a few hours. I’m sorry for your loss.
“Friend’s dad made some cayenne rolls from scratch tonight. He thought he was using cinnamon. The rolls had no cinnamon.”
Thankfully, the friend did in fact try some and reported their findings, saying, “Dad licked the knife right after he finished putting icing on them. So he realized it before anyone ate any. But we had to try a couple, just to see what they’d taste like. They were good & sweet, but also very very hot.”
“Check the lint trap.”
So few words, such a simple image, and yet a complete story is told. Though the dryer doesn’t look completely obliterated, the fire that happened must have still been extremely frightening. Thankfully everyone is safe and you’ll never forget to clean your lint trap again!
“My sister-in-law thought she bought a confetti cannon to prank me.”
What is that even? Paint? Colored dust? Ground up Cheeto puffs? Whatever it is, it looks a lot harder to clean that confetti, and that’s saying something! At least you’ll know if someone’s been sneaking through your kitchen for a while.
“I left a knife on the tray when I baked tater tots…”
Well, you can’t have tater tots without a dipping sauce, otherwise they’re too dry! Instead of going for the usual and squirting some ketchup on your plate, you decided to get creative and make your own sauce. Sure it’s melted plastic, but it’s homemade melted plastic!
“When they put in the new fiber optic line they bored through my sewer line.”
Whoever installed the fiber optic line was really not having it that day. They weren’t about to change their plans or readjust anything, they kept muscling forward, consequences be damned! If something happens later, that’s the homeowner’s fault now!
“That time I drove for Amazon and someone slammed on their brakes in front of me.”
So if a package of mine ever shows up battered and destroyed, it’s best not to automatically assume the worst? That’s generally good advice for anywhere, but when it comes to package delivery, can be hard to remember in the moment.
“Someone on Facebook tried to shave their cat and failed after the neck.”
Oh no. That poor, poor cat. Sure he had a lot of hair, but that’s what you get when you bring a long-haired breed into your home. He didn’t deserve to be shaved. Especially by someone who isn’t a professional. He doesn’t even know how bad it is.
“No pie for us today.”
This hurts to look at for too long. I can see the heartache that must have been present in that moment, the tragedy felt by all. Who needs to go see dramatic films or read sombre novels when they can feel the same emotions just by looking at this image?
Fixture snatching.
“My aunt passed and we told all her friends to take something to remember her by (thinking pictures right?). Nope, a long friend of hers took the ceiling fan on a house that needs to be sold! Her friend/future realtor took a 500$ chandelier, and my cousin took my chapped skin cream off my table.”
“[Damn…]on the new keyboard too.”
And you know that will never get completely cleaned out either. No matter how much you dust, vacuum, brush, whatever tactic you try to take, there will always be some leftover crumbs lurking inside the keys, just waiting to resurface.
“Tattoo artist gave my spider 9 legs.”
The good news is that it’s such a small detail that most people, at a passing glance, won’t even notice it. The bad news is that you’ll know. You’ll sit with this knowledge forever, sporting an anatomically incorrect spider on your person permanently.
“My MIL needed Frosted Flakes for her potato casserole…”
Hold on, back up just a second, Frosted Flakes on a potato casserole? Have I simply not had a lot of casseroles in my life, or does that sound really strange? I could probably understand Corn Flakes for the crunch, but frosted? No way.
“This isn’t how I wanted my morning to go.”
Be like the girl in the back, resign yourself to the situation and just sit for a bit. Let yourself chill. All will be well if you come to terms with the fact that it happened, there’s nothing you can do about it, and it will be dealt with accordingly.
“Should have checked the clearance.”
Every day, dozens of trucks across the nation are crunched and eaten by local bridges. You can help put a stop to this for just pennies a day by donating to the Giant Blinking Height Sign initiative, which will help drivers see bridge heights better before approaching them.
“I ruined all of my Christmas croquembouche because I forgot to flip over the parchment paper after drawing my outlines in sharpie…”
Mmm, nothing like the sweet, chemical taste of Sharpies on my delicious Christmas desserts. That’s a type of flavor you really only see this time of year, so I make sure to savor it when it comes around.
“I just did this! I forgot to put water in it.”
Come on now, really? Two ingredients, and you still missed one? I shouldn’t judge too harshly, anyone can have a lapse in judgement that leads to almost setting dry pasta on fire, but it is still SMH worthy at the very least.
