Try as we might to avoid it, having bad days is an inevitable part of being alive. Whether it be one catastrophic event, or a number of small mishaps that stack on top of one another, we’re never prepared and come out rougher on the other side.
Just like the unfortunate people featured in this list did, people whose bad day is on its last legs.
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“Got off the train at the wrong station.”
“Now [I’m] in the middle of nowhere without food, it’s raining, it’s cold, [I’m] hungry and next train is in 7 hours,” continued their description of the situation.
They somehow happened upon the creepiest train station ever to be abandoned at, one that has me worried there is no other train coming and this is the beginning of their horror movie moment.
“Second time today our dad almost burned the house down.”
Maybe it’s time for your dad to step back and take a seat while you sure he stays away from any other potential dangers. Put him in a bubble, strap him to a chair with plastic wrap, whatever it takes.
“The mirror in my hotel bathroom has an antifog section. Unfortunately, I’m 5’2″.”
Well, at least you have just enough to make sure the top of your head looks good! Anything more than that and you’d need a stepladder, but the loss of dignity you’d experience using one would not be enough of a trade off for better mirror visibility.
“Grabbed my rolling suitcase handle to head out the door to the airport.”
Travelling is already stressful enough without luggage malfunctions right as you’re about to leave. Now you’ll have to spend your whole vacation cradling your suitcase like a baby or carrying it like a football, sprinting forward with a hand out so you can make it to your flight.
“Don’t wash a blanket with a fitted sheet.”
Why does laundry have so many rules? Why must I remember this delicate hierarchy of what can and can’t be washed together? Why can’t I just put my dirty fabric things into the washing machine with soap and pull them out clean?
“I got candles for my wife’s birthday.”
Unless your wife is the absolute no nonsense type that rarely finds joy or comedy in anything that isn’t other peoples’ suffering, she’ll probably find this funny, so I wouldn’t stress too much. Nothing quite says ‘celebration’ like Happy Birthbay!
“Came home from vacation to find my cactus had given up on life.”
Plants, like pets, can become pretty attached to their caretakers. Maybe you forgot to say goodbye before you left, or it was sad you left at all, and really took it hard. A few days back in your company and it’ll spring right back up!
“Spilled water on my keyboard so I set it up in front of a heater to dry…”
I get wanting to immediately dry a piece of tech you got wet, but that’s what fans are for. Especially when said tech is made of plastic.
It definitely is dry now, at least. Not in the way you wanted, but it’s dry.
“Blow drying my hair only for this guy to pop out the end pointed right at my head.”
Introducing the new household roach launcher! Place it somewhere and wait for an unsuspecting cockroach the climb on in, point, and fire away! Guaranteed to launch your roaches up to 30 feet away!
Aiming towards the body not recommended; external use only.
“At Farmers Mutual, we know a thing or two, cause we’ve seen a thing or two.”
This house sunk so cleanly it looks almost like a video game glitch. “Patch 1.1 bug notice: Some houses load in partially sunk into the ground when the player approaches them. Does not affect gameplay for player, but may affect some NPC lines. Will be fixed in 1.2.”
“Neighbor’s 12yo grandkid decided to sneak in the car and take a joyride. Freaked out, hit the gas, and crossed their lawn and mine to hit the front of my house.”
Not only is this catastrophically bad, but it wasn’t even your fault! It was like the universe aligned to give you, specifically, a hard time for absolutely no reason. You don’t recall angering any gods or mythological creatures lately who might want to enact revenge, do you?
“Elbowed a mason jar of coffee off the bathroom counter this morning.”
Not only is it a coffee casualty, one of the worst kinds, but it’s a coffee casualty in the morning. At that point, you might as well give up on the whole day. Turn around, park yourself right back into bed, call the whole thing off.
“Friend lost his wallet earlier this week – found it today magnetized to his car.”
Found in the most awkward of places at the worst time as he definitely already canceled his cards and started replacing his IDs. How does this even happen? I know magnetized wallets exist, but did it jump out of his pocket in some desperate attempt to flea and get stuck?
“Got my rain boots from the garage in anticipation of today’s heavy rain… forgot to bring them inside last night.”
You got a free boot cleaning out of it! Inside and outside, they’ll be sparkling like new once they dry off.
Just stay home tonight instead. Whatever plans you had, here’s your excuse to cancel them. No wet shoes, boots are dry tomorrow, problem solved.
“My glass pan shattered 1 min before dinner was done…”
Of course, dishes and cookware breaking at all sucks, but to have it be fine until there was one minute left on your cook time? That’s when it decides to shatter?
Better then than another minute later when it was in your hands, at least.
“I dropped a yogurt on the floor and the biggest splatter went right into the electrical outlet.”
From the looks of it, that’s a public building, which means this is no longer your problem. Just walk away! And once the guilt starts to eat your alive and you start to fear being found out, move away! Run from your shame forever!
“My kids apparently invented a new way to play Jenga.”
There’s a lot less stacking in this version, which is weird since that’s kind of what the whole game’s about. It’s also a lot more wet than usual? Again, fine, just odd. Is there an instruction manual anywhere? I’m a little lost.
“My mother in law started the dishwasher for us when we were away. She used dish soap.”
Not putting dish soap in a dishwasher feels like a universal lesson we all picked up at some point or another, just something everybody knows, and still it manages to evade some people.
In this instance, it’s not even to her detriment; it’s someone else’s dishwasher she ruins!
“My wife thought the knife block was plastic so she decided to put it in the dishwasher.”
Speaking of dishwasher mishaps, here’s another. Even if it was dishwasher safe, do knife blocks really need to be cleaned that often? If you’re cleaning the knives before putting them back in, how dirty can they really get?
“Flew 13 hours to Hawaii to see Volcanoes National Park.”
Wow, what a view! Totally worth the travel time, there’s just nowhere else on earth you can see natural beauty like this.
Really, though, that does such, but at least you seem to be in good spirits about it. That’s about all you can ask for sometimes.
