Sometimes, when a bad or even just annoying thing happens, there’s nothing you can do at the moment but stare at it. You take a little extra time to process it because you’ve earned it, you’ve been through a lot.
That’s what happened to the people on this list who found themselves in situations where all they could do was shake their heads.
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“Brain malfunctioned while preparing scrambled eggs.”
At least this is salvageable? Better this than some sort of ‘accidentally throw the shell into the pan’ situation that’ll get your fingertips all burnt from picking ’em out!
“Neighbours decided my front yard was a good place for their snow.”
Dang, that’s a lot of snow. I wouldn’t say it’s malicious seeing as it isn’t really doing anything but sit there and look kind of bad, but it does feel a little targeted at the very least.
Unreasonable request.
“My [6-year-old son’s] teacher marks all of his answers with a 1 wrong because of his unique way of writing it. Even when he shows his work. He loves math and he was super bummed.”
“Relative had a chunk of ice fall from roof (3 floors up) and halved their table.”
Winter comes along every year to ruin peoples’ summer fun by making the outdoors treacherous and inhospitable. Now, winter is stepping up its game by ruining future summer plans too, destroying all your outdoor gear before you can enjoy it.
“Buy a shed they said. It’ll protect your stuff they said.”
Hey, it did protect your stuff! If that shed hadn’t been there to valiantly take those harsh gusts of wind, your stuff would be all over the place! You would have lost much more than a few sheets of metal.
“Customers unwound a bunch of yarn, now we have to undo this massive pile.”
I tried to think about what kind of barbarian would do this in a store and the only answer i came up with was ‘children’. Sorry to kids everywhere, but it’s true.
“Ordered a Galaxy Tab S6 on Amazon, delivery was 1 day late and received this instead…”
Hmm…that doesn’t quite look like a smartphone of any sort to me, let alone a Galaxy Tab S6.
On the bright side, there’s someone out there who ordered two boxes of tomato paste and wound up with a new phone for a steep discount.
“‘Fresh’ onion rings from Sonic.”
Oh, these are fresh alright, they’re just freshly burnt to a crisp. Freshly charred beyond edibility. How these even made it into a bag is beyond me, I guess one employee didn’t see a problem with them.
“Thought my 5 year old just wasn’t trying.”
At least the impossibility of this maze is identifiable immediately. Better to show you up front then lead you on for a while.
Sorry, cartoon bat, you won’t be meeting up with your friend any time soon.
“Thought I dropped my kid’s new screen protector on the floor…Couldn’t find it for hours.”
Applying screen protectors is a tricky task that requires 100% of your attention the entire way lest something like this happen. You can’t take your eyes off ’em for even a second or they’ll vanish.
“I just needed some 2% milk and white sandwich bread.”
Well, Walmart decided that you needed some heavy cream and whole wheat bread instead. You can either take it and make some new discoveries regarding your taste, or you can leave.
“Picked up cutting board to wash it and it split in half right down the middle.”
This is kinda handy, now you have two, more portable cutting boards! Just make sure to sand the inside down so you’re not getting splinters in your food.
“Got an incredible amount of rain and wind. This 60 lb bag of concrete got wet in my garage. Now it’s a solid piece of concrete.”
Well, if you ever need an extremely large and awful paperweight for any reason, you’ve got one at the ready. It might take a crane to get in your house, but hey, whatever gets the job done.
“Dropping the popcorn that you spent a small fortune on…”
You’ll have to take out a loan if you even want to think about replacing that one. And splurging on a large or even a medium? Forget it, that’s for lottery winners and billionaires only.
“If anyone needs to feel good about their day.”
Anyone who works with pallets of any kind that have a product which can fall, I salute you. I couldn’t live with that type of anxiety in my daily work routine.
“My slippers arrived! And they came with an extra accessory.”
Wow, how cute! I had no idea slipper clips were so in this season, but they seem to be popping up everywhere! You can’t seem to switch them out for something new and fresh, though, seems like an oversight.
“Broken arm rest on a long flight.”
You know that guy got to his seat and just sighed. Not only is it an aisle seat, but it’s an aisle seat he can’t fully relax in. That’s complaint worthy, or, at the very least, whine to whoever I’m traveling with worthy.
“I won this stuffed animal at the grocery store claw machine and it got stuck on the claw.”
If you look closely, you can see that it’s the small rope loop that’s hanging off a small piece of the claw. It looks like nothing a little shimmy and shake of the machine can’t solve!
“Flour bin slipped out of my hands while trying to put it down.”
Oh, flour, my personal least favorite pantry staple to clean. You can’t get it wet, and you have to be careful when vacuuming or sweeping as it’ll have dust flying everywhere! It’s like glitter but it’s not even fun!
“2 hours into a 10 hour shift when a passenger asks if I know about the stowaway on my bus.”
A bit of a peculiar way to be sitting, but if he’s quiet and chill I bet he’d make for a great riding partner. He prefers it up near the windows, so you get the whole extra seat to yourself!
