Bad things happening is never necessarily a fun experience, but there’s no denying that there are worse times for them to happen. Right before going out, at the end of a long day, or ruining something all sting a little more than were something to happen randomly .
This list shows examples of that, where tiny factors mean these things couldn’t have happened at a worse time.
It’s there…somewhere.
“TIFU… I dropped a small screw somewhere in this area. I need it to hold the new rubber seal on the inside of the faucet. Fml. Anyone out there care for a game of ‘I Spy’?”
“Is it okay to cry over an entire gallon of spilled milk in the garage when it’s 5 degrees and I can’t clean it right now?”
I vote that yes, it’s definitely okay to cry over that. Though, it may actually be easier to clean up later, since instead of using endless amounts of paper towels you might be able to use an ice chipper!
“Parking is free after 5pm. I paid until 5pm. Got a ticket at 5pm.”
A fun follow-up from the uploader after they fought this ticket reads, “It only took me five minutes today to get in and out of town hall, but even the clerk who voided the ticket said ‘This makes no damn sense, what the hell were they thinking?'”
“I just patched my son’s pants and he ripped them again the next day.”
Maybe he liked your patch so much that he wanted another one, but was just too shy to tell you. Or, the complete opposite, he’s rebelling against your patching and just wants ripped jeans.
“I was cruising about 50mph, then the plastic snapped.”
Talk about a scary situation! I try to keep a level head while driving, but that would be enough to make me freeze up!
As a few people said in the comments, though, better the gas pedal than the brake!
All for naught.
“It was my last day of work before preparing to go back to college. I stuck around for one more week than my other seasonal co-workers to make a bit of extra cash. While I was mowing my last section, the blades launched a rock directly into my car’s window. There goes that time and money.”
“I put aluminum foil down in the oven to make cleanup easier after cooking pizza. The foil melted and got stuck instead.”
Don’t they make pans specifically for this? Round ones? You know, the ones specifically called pizza pans, as they’re for pizzas? There are even ones with holes in them so you still get your crispy crust. There are safe ways to do this.
“Took a glass out of the dishwasher before it was fully cooled down and filled it with cold milk…oops.”
I’m suddenly very grateful for my tiny apartment with no dishwasher. I’m lucky that this has never happened to me while growing up, and I intend to keep that streak alive.
“My address is 444 and this is the only place in town that sells house numbers.”
The number of suggestions made were really impressive, from putting 222 + 222 to spelling it out as F0UR F0UR F0UR as the Os are also missing. Though, my favorite suggestion had to be the person telling them to write it out in roman numerals, making it CDXLIV.
“Someone tipped me half a $20 (valet) Pretty sure [it’s] worthless.”
They really wanted to tip you $10 but didn’t have any way to split their $20s, so they thought to literally split a $20 and hope it would end up the same way.
Maybe they shouldn’t be driving.
“So I was heading to [a] job interview and accidentally spilled coffee all over me just before [the] interview. Not the best first impression [I] suppose…”
Funny enough, most people weren’t even concerned about the state of his jeans — they were more caught up in the fact that he was wearing jeans to a job interview at all. Either way, here’s hoping he got the job!
“Was attempting to make egg fried rice when I realized that my oven has no power.”
Looking at all that beautiful prep work you did and knowing it amounted to nothing is genuinely so, so sad. I’m so sorry this happened to you. I hope you can learn to trust again one day.
“[…] Restaurant had a broken door during a severe snow storm.”
And on that day, they only served iced coffees, scooping some snow right into the cups to serve as the ice.
I don’t actually know if they did that, but it would extremely funny if they had.
“I couldn’t get my grass to grow, so I replaced it with a rock bed. Six months later and the grass is growing better than ever.”
Grass, like many things in life, is notoriously stubborn and runs off spite alone. Refuses to grow when you want it, but as soon as you decide you’re done with it, it comes back with a vengeance and reminds you to never underestimate it again.
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“Gas was shut off today because my furnace producing dangerously high levels of Carbon Monoxide…and it’s currently -21c/-6f outside.”
That definitely does suck and I bet you’re freezing your little toes off right now, however, dying to carbon monoxide poisoning would almost certainly be worse, so let’s be a little grateful here.
“Started a new teaching job and was into the lesson today and sat on a desk to explain the book we were reading. Thankfully nobody was sitting there.”
This is one of those moments you beg your students will immediately forget about, but in your heart, you know they won’t. This one moment as a teacher will follow you for years to come.
“Less than 5 miles from my destination and [satellite navigation] [won’t] zoom in.”
If you squint real hard, you might be able to make it out still. Just make a left at the next pixel fraction— wait, nope, you’ve gone too far, you have to make a U-turn.
“Drove seven hours down to [California] just to meet this sign […].”
For a problem that huge, you’d think they’d have bigger signs. Or, like, a fence. A barricade. Anything more than this one tiny rectangle to fend people off with.
“Ordered a new iPhone directly from Apple…box arrived completely empty.”
Time to start begging to whatever Apple employee gets your customer service request, hoping they’ll believe you when you say the box showed up empty, promising them this isn’t some sort of scam.
“Guess I’m not getting in my car.”
Who needs to get into their cars these days? Just do what your grandparents always said they used to do, hike up that hill, 10 miles both ways, in the middle of a snowstorm. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
