We’re all used to dealing with minor and major inconveniences . Sometimes we do it for so long that we just accept them, finding it hard to envision a world in which we get what we want.
Let’s rage against complacency by calling out disappointing stuff that is by no means okay.
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“New electronic billboard by the freeway I use every day. I have never seen one as bright as this. It’s extremely distracting and you literally cannot look directly at it while driving.”
At one time, there was a movement to remove billboards — old-school, non-electronic billboards — from American highways. Just look at how far we’ve come.
“Press dismiss to update this printer.”
When you deal with an interface like this, it’s hard to trust any UI, even a good one, ever again. Why do they have to be like this?
“1996 Whistle exhaust mod.”
If I saw this on the highway, I’d just assume these things extend into giant death spikes, and that the car was driven by a Bond villain. Or, possibly, a referee with some serious issues.
“This is just pathetic.”
There’s a lot of well-intentioned, but hollow, sentiment in support of Ukraine right now. Then there are companies that are literally using the conflict to sell their product.
“Driver parked his truck and disappeared. Mine and another car were blocked in for over 3 hours.”
Can you imagine blocking in two cars in such an egregious way, then packing up and leaving? The audacity is incredible. Seriously, who does this?
“The strawberry syrup is painted on the cup.”
I’d like to know how many actual strawberries the product contains, because it looks like most of them were merely implied.
“Who is this sign meant for?”
Geese in this park have either learned to read, or the person who put up this sign missed their mark, because it sure seems unlikely that a lot of locals are bringing pet geese here.
“My sister works at a Starbucks and this was someone’s simple order.”
As a former barista, I can say that 99% of the orders I received were perfectly reasonable. Then came the 1%, represented nicely by this photo.
“The worst staircase I have ever seen.”
This is kind of like an Escher painting: the longer you look at the stairs, the more confusing they become. I’m not even sure if up is up and down is down anymore.
“My mom literally decapitated the muffin’s head and just left the body there. Why not cut it vertically? Who does this?!?!”
Everyone likes the top of the muffin best, but that doesn’t mean you can just do this. We live in a society with rules.
“Four-sided die comes up with different numbers.”
This dice literally had one job, and it failed. Good luck calculating your hit points and charisma with this piece of junk. All it’s good for is putting on the floor to annoy burglars when they find out you’re home alone at Christmas.
“Go ahead, I dare you. Bike lane ends in oncoming traffic.”
It took me a second to see what’s going on here. Yikes. There’s no pick-me-up quite like riding your bike into an oncoming bus.
“This guy’s amount of items in the Express Lane right before dropping the 6 pack of Diet Coke all over the floor.”
There are two types of people in the world: those who use the express lane properly, and monsters. We all know what kind of person this guy is.
“The worst bathroom I have ever seen (in a hotel).”
Unless you like sitting on the toilet side-saddle, this is not going to work out very well.
“Contractor poured concrete runoff down a drain directly above my car.”
To be fair, the contractor didn’t know the car would be hit. That said, maybe they could have found a better place to dump it.
“This is the inside of the bathroom door at a bar in NYC. After some cocktails, it is impossible to pick the right one on the first try.”
Eventually, someone’s going to get sick of this door’s sick game and just kick the whole thing down.
“You’d better not drop your card when you withdraw cash.”
If you’re the kind of person who loves to feel the thrill of danger, this is the perfect ATM to take money out of.
“I stub my toe on this way too much.”
This just hurts to look at. As appealing as a raised throne might be, it just isn’t worth the stubbed toes.
“This needlessly large packaging for a 20mm sized micro SD card.”
I get that small packaging would make things easier to steal, so why not just keep them behind the counter and avoid the wasteful packaging altogether?
“Instead of making these thermometers turn off they just stay on and display the word ‘off’ making them run their batteries faster than other models we used to have at my job.”
To top it off, these thermometers probably take some weird kind of battery that’s tough to find when you need a replacement.
