35 “Well That Sucks” Moments That’ll Make You Weirdly Thankful For Your Own Day
Thanksgiving is all about gratitude, and nothing inspires gratitude quite like seeing someone else’s day go off the rails. These are the kind of “well that sucks” moments that make you hug your mashed potatoes a little tighter and appreciate the calm in your own daily life.
Let’s hope this next week goes better for these unfortunate souls.
1. “The text I got from my wife this morning”
2. “The text I got from my wife this morning”
3. “Guy I hired to do some work for me broke my brand new range”
4. “While changing my car oil and pouring the new oil in, I broke off the tip of the plastic funnel which fell into the engine, and now requires a mechanic to disassemble the engine so they can fish it out – to the tune of $1,000”
5. “This again”
6. “It’s my girlfriend’s birthday today and I had balloons sent to her office and they were filled with air and not helium and also primarily in a foreign language”
7. “Tripped headfirst into fresh paint”
8. “My dentist tried to charge extra but I had every payment written down. Sucks for them because I demanded discount too.”
“My sister and I got braces back in 2021. We visited the same clinic every few month for almost 3 years for tightening. When the time finally came to get them removed, the receptionist suddenly said there was a pending payment from an old visit. She said their system didn’t sync properly ( the obsession with incorporating AI is real here), so it wasn’t showing up.
But they forgot that since 2021, every single visit, I wrote down both my payment and my sister’s payment by hand, and I even had the receptionist write the amount herself in my notebook.
I showed her the exact date and amount, and the “pending payment” disappeared immediately. After I said I’d file a complaint if this happened again, they also gave a small discount on the final visit.
Keeping your own records really helps.”
9. “I bit into a piece of taffy and it pulled my crown off. At 9 pm on a Friday night no less.”
10. “I forgot the lid after refilling oil and drove to work.”
11. “12h shift ahead and I forgot my earphones…”
12. “I heard you needed to get home”
13. “Ate half of my cookie dough ice cream with no sign of any cookie dough only to find out its all piled on the bottom”
14. “Adjusting my glasses”
15. “Dropped my cake on the way to a birthday party”
16. “Broke my brand new potato ricer after ricing one (1) potato”
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18. “Decided to open a wall after seeing some mildew”
19. “Someone smashed my window yesterday while I was eating a salad”
“I was inside eating a salad. I came out after an hour and it was smashed. They didn’t even take anything. I think they took a peek in my backpack and saw a mason jar full of water and a bag of pecans and realized I have nothing.
I also had tons of my ceramics work in the front seat I had just picked up from the studio that they didn’t take. So they didn’t even like my art :(“
20. “Mold/rot (?) on dry pasta”
“Never seen this before in my life. I thought dry pasta didn’t go bad. It was fully sealed in plastic, not wet or anything. Bought fairly recently too, less than 6 months ago”
21. “I pulled too hard”
22. “Amazon driver locked their keys in the van”
23. “The lens on my new (to me) tail light fell off as I was actively replacing my old tail light with no lens”
“I just set the new one in place and was about to turn some nuts when it slipped right off.
Guess I know what happened to the old one.”
24. “Entire fingernail ripped off from the nail root..”
25. “The left button popped out and is now missing”
26. “Semi-truck broke down blocking the only entrance into my apartment building.”
“Just got off work at 4, I’ve been sitting here for about 15 minutes.
I don’t want to go anywhere, I just want to go home. :/
Guess I’ll just sit here and watch them do their work.”
27. “Free Screwdriver”
28. “They were ‘really generous with the jelly’ – advertising vs. product”
29. “(sighs)”
“I posted this a few days ago and everyone got mad that I blamed the closer, but as a closer it’s actually their responsibility to set this up correctly.
Not the opener’s to make sure they set everything up correctly. I’ve made this mistake before and took 100% responsibility.. because it’s whoever set up coffee’s fault.
The closer and I laughed about the picture and said we’d both double check from now on, no hard feelings lol. But yes, this did suck.”
30. “Someone’s having a bad day”
“Found in bathroom of a gas station.”
31. “I just want some soup…:(“
32. “And here are the keys.”
“Just at reach fortunately. Just had to put my head in it to get them. What a day.”
33. “I wonder how this happened.”
34. “My Laptop Charger Broke the week after my truck got towed”
“My laptop charger just broke which already would suck but my truck just got towed so until I get paid again my laptop is out of commission. On the plus side, thanksgiving break is right around the corner and it’ll make it easier for me to not be on my laptop all of break when I should be spending time with my friends.”
35. “Boyfriend broke my phone”
“It was an accident, but it still sucks… I sorta works? Like the only thing that is broken is the screen, but I am still upset that he broke it, even if not intentionally.”