Everyone knows that life is hardly perfect. Sometimes, things just aren’t going to go your way. Still, though, we keep hoping that things will stay smooth. In some cases, it’s hard to recognize that something’s wrong until it basically smacks you in the face.
“I cut the crust off my toddler’s sandwich so she would eat the whole thing. I came back to this”
This is #toddlerlife in a nutshell: set things up for your kid just so, just the way they want it, and find out that they still found a way to be a diva about the whole situation.
“This milk at my school.”
Bagged milk is a thing in parts of Canada, but we’re talking about big bags with a proper container to pour from. This isn’t even that — it’s a frozen block of milk. So, uh, good luck with that, kids.
“Found this while in an airport returning home…”
We’re all pretty used to wearing facemasks in public settings at this point, so the sign is hardly needed. In fact, the sign just makes things worse because I have no idea what it’s trying to tell me.
“Just got to my condo, I’m in unit E…”
If you’re in unit A, B, C, D, F or G, this sign will show you the way quite nicely. I don’t know what unit E did to deserve its orphaned status here.
“This packaging for one potato.”
Potatoes come in their own natural packaging. It’s called skin. Wrapping each individual potato up in its own cellophane tomb just seems unnecessary.
“My brother dug through the ice cream to take all the candy out.”
It’s one thing to open a new tub of ice cream and find that the candy content isn’t as advertised. It’s quite another thing to open a tub of ice cream to find that your bratty sibling has liberated all of the candy.
“At a parking lot. These cars are all parked in EV charging spots, despite the fact that none of these are electric vehicles…”
As electric cars become more prevalent, we’re going to see this more and more: regular cars stealing the electric spots because, hey, a parking spot’s a parking spot.
“How the neighbor left my garage after fixing his truck.”
Plenty of people have chaotic garages that look like this (myself included). But this garage only got this way after a neighbor used it and then didn’t clean up.
“This ‘taco’ someone posted from their work cafeteria.”
I like tacos as much as the next guy, but this taco doesn’t look that appetizing, somehow. It looks like it’s full of…well, not ground beef, exactly.
“The stairs in an Airbnb I stayed in where every step is a different height, width and depth.”
With time, patience and a few stubbed toes, we can adapt to even the weirdest stairs. But in an unfamiliar setting, these stairs are basically a death trap.
“I think I’ve found it, the worst expiration date ever.”
I love how vague this is. It kind of makes you wonder why they even tried to give it an expiration date. Two years from when?
“Know the facts: I have beautiful teeth, too.”
Even after I scroll away from this image, the baby haunts me. How does a newborn baby have a better set of adult teeth than I do?
“The maze they gave us after donating blood has no escape.”
Creating a maze is easy. Just make sure there’s a valid path from the starting point to the finish, and that’s pretty much all you need to do. The person who designed this should take notes.
“Where should I go?
If you’ve ever wanted a photo that perfectly illustrates the concept of a catch-22, here you go. Regardless of the option you choose, you can’t win and you can’t lose.
“Bought a pack of cigarettes today. Instead of cigarettes, there were just King-sized filter tips in the pack. Every single one of them.”
Manufacturing defects like this fascinate me. How did this one lonely package get so messed up and then find its way to store shelves?
“Contractor got angry and left the job when we asked him to use the spacers we bought for the backsplash.”
If the contractor was wondering why these folks wanted him to use spacers, it’s pretty evident by the job he did.
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“I ordered 4 sliders, and received 270 bread rolls. Such a waste.”
This person could donate these rolls to a shelter or a soup kitchen, but that’s hardly a consolation prize when they were expecting four delicious sliders.
“This sticker came off with no glue on it. It all remained on the laptop.”
I hope laptops stop including stickers on them eventually. They always look like trash, and sometimes this kind of stuff happens when you peel them off.
“The outside of my father’s house.”
Have you ever seen a brick wall that made you seasick? It sounds impossible, I know, but just look at this pic for a few seconds.
“The way these signs have to be slightly misaligned in order to have the text aligned correctly.”
It’s almost imperceptible, but if you had an eye for detail and worked at this store, it’s a near guarantee that this sign would eventually drive you mad.
