At any given time, we’re likely to have at least one problem in our lives that seems more important than the others. And of course, I don’t have to tell you that it’s been hard to keep track of the issues that exist on that level over the past year.
But no matter what’s going on, we’re still human. And with that humanity comes a tendency to get upset over things that don’t matter quite as much in the grand scheme of things. Even when we know it’s really not that big of a deal, that doesn’t stop us from getting angry enough that it would seem like one.
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I’m guilty of this in the sense that I’ve screamed things at machines that I would never say to another person, but as we’re about to see, the little things that can seriously drive us up the wall vary from person to person.
This one hits pretty close to home for me because this is probably the most rage-inducing way that tech can fail to work.
It’s one thing to spit out an error message or be finicky about how I do something, but it’s another matter entirely to pretend that something doesn’t exist when it’s clearly abundant.
You’re almost literally buried in coffee, you stupid machine!
It’s hard not to get a little frustrated when we’re looking at a change that seems to defeat its own purpose.
In case it’s not clear, the uploader here found it odd that the makers of these drinks would bother changing the plastic straws to a paper alternative while doing nothing about the plastic wrapping surrounding the six-pack.
The less comfortable straw might be worth it if it seemed like we were actually helping the environment, but it’s hard to feel that way in this case.
You’d have to mess up pretty bad to make me not crave your pizza but whoever made this one seemed to give it their best shot.
The pizza itself looks fine — if nothing particularly special — but it seems like somebody actually tried to cut it as annoyingly as possible.
Either that or they weren’t exactly sober at the time.
Before we take a look at this underwear, I want to make it abundantly clear that this is what it’s supposed to look like.
So while it may appear that several different, unfortunate bodily functions happened in them at once, this is apparently just the result of them being “plant dyed.”
The only real quality we’re looking for in a window screen is its ability to keep bugs out of our homes.
And yet that apparently didn’t stop whoever installed the screens in this dorm room from finding ones that left a sizable gap between themselves and the window frames.
Bugs can pretty stupid but they’re not so dumb that they can’t exploit this little flaw.
By the same token, I’m not sure what anybody thought this divider at the store was going to accomplish.
Putting aside the decision to keep fairly unpopular instant coffee under lock and key, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in a security feature when all you need to defeat it is an elbow.
Although this problem seems a little bigger than the others, it’s also apparently a common source of a minor inconvenience for us.
Apparently, when our packages arrive later than expected, there’s a good chance that happened because employees had to disentangle a mess like this.
As one commenter who worked for UPS shared , it wasn’t unusual for the pile of boxes to reach the ceiling when they toppled like this.
Sometimes, the way we perceive something can make us wary about using it even when we know there’s nothing wrong with it.
For instance, the uploader confirmed this bread is not moldly. That doesn’t make it any easier not to see it that way, however, thanks to the splotchy cloud design on the package.
I can’t imagine how hard you would have to try to find a worse place to put these pillars.
Not only do they make getting down these stairs awkward but they also make it so people who need the bathroom have to shuffle around them.
I suppose it could be worse and they could’ve put them in front of a door that needs to swing out to open.
If it feels really satisfying for you to type in all caps, I’d steer clear of this Chromebook.
Because if you reach for that familiar caps lock key, all you’ll end up doing is calling up a search bar.
And considering how easy it is to accidentally hit that key on a normal keyboard, I can see that getting annoying pretty fast.
Experience tells me that you’ll either immediately know what’s wrong with these mirrors or it won’t bother you at all.
If you’re in the second group, you may be curious to know that it’s seriously aggravating people as to how little they match.
The sizes don’t really fit together, the designs of the frames are fundamentally different, and even the mirrors themselves don’t really line up.
Surely there must have been a way to make this easier to read.
I’m not sure what happened to the space bar of whoever wrote this but it kind of reads like someone grabbed us by the shoulders and speedran this whole warning at us before we could process what was going on.
I can only hope that someone installed these glass panes upside down and that this wasn’t part of the original design vision.
Because not only is the wrong part of these urinal users being hidden by the translucent glass, but this window is apparently easy to peer into from the neighboring buildings.
Oops.
At first glance, the way these cords connect to the machine should seem fairly simple. Gray goes into gray and white goes into white, right?
Well, the problem is that the connectors on these cords both have gray and white sections to them.
And since this is a cardiotocograph used to monitor fetal heartbeats, it’s kind of important to make sure it’s set up correctly.
Somewhere along the line, someone missed a step after this person ordered Taco Bell via Doordash.
While it was apparently understood that they wanted a medium and small Baja Blast, either an employee or a driver forgot to actually fill the cups.
For this X-Men fan, this sudden change in spine design for _Dark Phoenix_ broke a satisfying streak.
I’d say that was also true of the movie itself but that would suggest that X-Men Apocalypse was all that great either. Yeah, not so.
While it’s hard to tell what had to go wrong for this to happen, it also illustrates that cars and fire hydrants are pretty much mortal enemies.
Either the hydrant is preventing a car from getting into an otherwise sweet-looking parking spot or a fire crew has to break somebody’s window because they thought they could away with parking next to one of these.
What do you think the chances are of the driver remembering the hydrant is there when they pull out?
You’d think that promoting your product on the box would be as easy as taking a picture of it, but apparently not.
As one person learned, some sneaky company decided to bait-and-switch the cuteness of this little moon guy.
Because instead of sleeping adorably, it just seems to have insomnia.
Carpeted bathrooms seem like an ill-advised idea in general but this is somehow even worse.
I’m not sure what whoever came up with this thinks happens in a public bathroom that would make it safe to install carpets, but they were sorely mistaken.
It looks gross and unsanitary as a result, which should come as a surprise to precisely nobody.
It’s probably not too hard to see why this was annoying to deal with but the uploader broke it down anyway.
As they put it, “Walked down the middle of the aisle for 10 minutes blocking me from being able to pass, walking at less than a normal pace, talking on the phone, and to top it off when I did finally get around her she gave me the stink eye.”
I mean, was the fact that she was literally surrounded by cars not enough of a clue as to what most people use this place for?
