Nate
2024 was a year full of those maddening little moments that drive you up the wall—crooked tiles, absurd packaging, parking fails, and all the everyday annoyances that r/mildlyinfuriating loves to showcase. While some years test your patience, this one felt like it majored in delivering the exact kind of frustrations that make you mutter, “Of course this would happen.”
From design disasters to tech glitches and people just being… well, people, here are the top mildly infuriating posts that perfectly summed up the mild rage we all felt this year.
Let’s laugh, cringe, and commiserate together as we revisit the best of mildly infuriating 2024.
1. “Etsy seller really thought this is what I wanted”
2. “Here’s what a ‘large fries’ looks like at my McDonald’s in 2024”
“I ordered a $14 Big Mac meal in the SF Bay Area and received this.”
3. “I brought muffins to work because of my birthday, 5 minutes later they told me i am fired because of budget cuts..”
“I feel like an idiot, i’m already poor and this job was a bit of light in a dark cave.
still let them keep the muffins though :/”
4. “Gf found the engagement ring a week before I was going to propose…”
“I’ve had the ring for a little over 2 months now. Hid it behind some old books on the shelves in my office.
After some of our friends started posting old yearbook photos in our group chat, she ran to go look through our yearbooks too. It didn’t occur to me until too late…
We have a trip to Chicago coming up within a week. So much for surprises.”
5. “Smell Test”
6. “My prize winning carrot from this year’s harvest”
7. “My uncle took multiple edibles before coming to Thanksgiving dinner and took home a burner grate without realizing”
8. “Hot wheels losing details over the years”
9. “People are finding mold in KSI’s new Lunchly product”
10. “How did we go from paper cups and plastic straws to plastic cups and paper straws?”
11. “Told the seller I was missing the CTRL key and he sent me this.”
12. “Woman kept covering my screen with her hair during a flight”
13. “We all know about ‘Shrinkflation’. Can I coin the term, ‘Trickflation’?”
14. “GF always light a candle near dried leaves”
15. “My Dad woke up to a sewer crab in the toilet this morning. (We live in a tropical climate)”
16. “Son’s math test”
17. “My sister only uses the white part of the spring onions….she was going to throw this out.”
18. “Uninspiring teacher comment”
“My 11 year old daughters teacher wrote this comment on her homework.
I’m absolutely flabbergasted and angry. This after my daughter just competed in gymnastics nationals a month ago.”
19. “Hired a guy to haul away excess soil from my pool install… Hits pool with his excavator no more than 5 min into job.”
20. “I’ve been walking around for 4 hours like this. I’m a lawyer.”
21. “Entire library is empty. Random girl came and sat RIGHT next to me.”
22. “My wife lost her Apple Pencil four months ago. After replacing it, we just found it.”
23. “I let my colleague borrow my laptop charger for a meeting. This is how he returned it.”
“When I mentioned it to him, he told me it was ‘clearly an accident’ and said I can ‘easily buy another one.'”
24. “Was told to ‘use Uber’ if I wanted to pick up my antibiotics from the pharmacy I was standing at”
“This is a Walgreens in a city. I don’t have a car. Not exactly sure how to ‘use Uber’ to sit and wait at a busy drive thru.
Wish I’d known ahead I could have gotten them sent somewhere else.”
25. “Coca-Cola has replaced artists with AI. They couldn’t even get their logo right.”
26. “At the gym during the busiest time of day”
“There were no free squat racks and this guy would do 3 reps then walk around and talk to other people for 5 minutes before doing another set.”
27. “Two pairs of jeans from the same brand, same size”
“I finally found a brand of jeans that fit me well. I loved the blue ones, so I bought another pair in black, and couldn’t get them up past my thighs. Both size L”
28. “New AirPods cheaper than repair”
“This is a legit apple customer support message exchange.”
29. “This restaurant covered up the ‘No Tip’ option with a sticker to force tipping”
30. “My nougat sticks look like sh*t”
31. “70% of my essay is being detected as AI, despite not using any AI”
“This is due very soon, and I have no idea how I’m going to make my OWN writing look less ai written”
32. “This is how my daughter left the car for me today”
“I was afraid to even drive it to the nearby gas station!”
33. “Yes. I have the middle seat and I have legs”
“I was eye rolled when I politely asked if the window seat passenger could move her backpack. I guess I should have left my legs at home.”
34. “This guy used a laptop throughout a movie last night.”
“I was on the other side of the theater but noticed he was on one when I came in.
It was a pretty big theater and I could see a faint light once the movie started but I kind of thought it was just an aisle light.
When I went to leave I noticed he was still on it. Took this as the credits rolled.
Note: he also had earbuds in but took them out right before the picture”
35. “I just peeled a banana, then threw it into trash but kept the peel in my hand.”
36. “Why does corporate think this is ok?”
“God forbid I get sick. Company doesn’t give a crap”
37. “Baked a cake for my parent’s anniversary and my brother did this”
38. “I got a point off for stapling my homework wrong”
“This was just for a daily homework assignment that was worth like 5 points… not an exam or paper or anything.
College is weird.”
39. “A poster hanging in this counseling room”
40. “Couldn’t you just have.. printed the hours.. on here”
41. “Thanks for being accessible”
42. “So my wife’s ‘designer friend’ came over and decorated our tree.”
43. “Box lunch from sandwich shop comes with picture of a cookie, rather than an actual cookie.”
44. “This should be ILLEGAL!”
“Only 7 miles until buddy on the left finally passed middle guy.”
45. “My cousin and her kid are staying with us for a while, this is what she usually gives her 5yo son for breakfast”
“Not to mention the mess she allows him to make that, although she does clean up after him, It’s not fun living in what seems like a consistently dirty home (she cleans at bedtime, it’s back to a mess by noon )”
46. “Have a cold, so I got myself some Claritin… what the fuck is this”
47. “Surprised my girlfriend with baked goods and flowers before she went to work, and her co-workers ate them all”
“Unprompted, straight up just snagged them from her area and ate em, rude asf.”
48. “My mum mixed all the sugars”
“4 in 1 jar, 2 in 1 jar by the looks of it. She never even cooks or bakes. I’ve told her not to mess with the pantry as that’s my job as I’m the ‘expert’.
Demerara sugar, light brown sugar, dark brown sugar, golden granulated sugar I think.”
49. “Sometimes I feel like some FedEx drivers just do this kind of stuff because they think it’s funny”
“Bruh we were home all day you just had to ring the bell. Literally posted it on top of the note.”
50. “My parents are the reason why I hate smoking.”
“My parents just almost never clean their stuff. Its kinda disgusting ngl. It has been worse before though.”