35 Mildly Infuriating Pics For Anyone Who Needs A Reminder That It Could Always Be Worse
Some days everything goes exactly as planned and you feel like a person who has their life together in a meaningful way. Today is probably not that day or you wouldn’t be here. That’s okay. That’s what this post is for. There is a specific kind of comfort that comes from looking at someone else’s mildly infuriating situation and thinking at least that’s not me right now. Not in a mean way. In a deeply human, I needed this today kind of way.
These pics are full of that feeling. Small disasters, minor inconveniences, and moments that made someone’s day significantly worse or simply more annoying for no good reason. Your week is fine. Probably. Either way, these will help.
1. “The lottery told me that my $100,000 win was actually a $20.00 misprint. They pulled the game hours later.”
2. “Went to juice my lemon and it was so structurally sound the handle broke off and then my glass fell victim as well. Just bought these lemons from the store 30 minutes ago.”
3. “Why the heck is the chicken ON the recipe sheet?”
“Found this recipe image online and I can’t get past the fact that someone wrote out a nice ingredient chart and then decided the best place to put four piles of raw marinating chicken was directly on the paper…”
4. “The carpeting on these stairs at a Best Western”
“Been here less than a day and have almost busted my a– twice already”
5. “How cunning can you be with food packaging?”
6. “After nearly 30 years of use, lost an old friend today…. Pour one out.”
7. “Came back to my bike to find the rider next to me had locked my bike to theirs.”
“I don’t even know if it was accidental or deliberate. Ended up taking out my multitool, detaching the bottle cage, and leaving it behind.”
8. “Battery on my electric mower ran out on the last pass”
“Had another battery but I had to go get it”
9. “Magic the gathering box broke while moving”
“Third floor walk up, box broke on the last flight of stairs with a truck waiting for me.”
10. “Knocked a plant over an open PC”
“Oops. PC has been in trouble for now, I swapped out the GPU last night to do some troubleshooting but it was still borked, so left it open overnight tucked away in a corner.
First thing I do this morning? Knock over a Monstera which had been chilling on the windowsill. Nice. Happy Friday.”
11. “Papa John’s guilt-t(r)ipping”
12. “Poster my boss hung up at work”
13. “Our pans every time my gf cooks eggs.”
14. “Guy pulled out of 1 of the 4 electric car parking spots in the apartment building and set up a ladder.”
15. “The way my local thrift store sorts the books”
16. “Business class get relaxing warm lighting while economy gets hospital-style bright lighting”
17. “Every time my girlfriend stays over, she always flips the roll.”
18. “This car I’ve never seen before has been parked in our yard for 24 hours. Haven’t seen the owner once.”
19. “Why is there no yolk in the egg?”
20. “Just looked at my gf’s TV remote for longer than 2 seconds.”
21. “The dad who let his kid use his phone at full brightness during a Weird Al concert”
22. “Left a rubber door mat on the lawn for 30 minutes while hosing down the front porch.”
23. “Anti-homeless benches designed to prevent people from laying down makes it hard to sit”
24. “Marker randomly dripped a relatively gigantic drop on the most crucial & intricate part of my drawing.”
25. “Anyone else so sick of the pollen getting worse every year?”
26. “Our cow’s ear hits the tip of her horn when she swings to deter flies”
“I’m considering covering the injured part of her ear but idk how to do it. Vets don’t come for cases like that, can’t do anything about it.”
27. “I’m amazed at how some people have a license”
“How….why….”
28. “Both of my shoe’s sole broke at the summit of a 2,335 ft tall mountain during a hike.”
“Actually my left sole broke first halfway when going uphill. The right one broke otw back down the mountain.”
29. “Dad used all my duck eggs to make cookies.”
“I got three fresh duck eggs and nine chicken eggs from a local farm. I’ve never had duck eggs, so I was really looking forward to making some this weekend, and comparing them to the chicken eggs.
Nope! He used all three in a recipe that calls for two large eggs, so with the size, he could have gotten away with one, maybe one and a chicken egg.
Better believe I rage ate those dang cookies. They were amazing, but I hated them, but they were so good.”
30. “My spatula melted into the butter i was browning after 20+ minutes at the stove”
31. “First day of my vacation”
“It took two days to get it removed.…
For those asking, minimal damage to the frame on the upper passenger side and the glass shattered at that point as well.”
32. “This pop up warning at an all you can eat sushi restaurant”
33. “Cheated out of this single grain of rice”
“I will never be able to enjoy this morsel of delicious rice that has been impregnated within a polymer prism.”
34. “Mom sold our Kitchen Table. Eating Noodles on the Floor.”
“Apparently she hated it and never bothered to mention it, so she decided to get rid of it BEFORE buying a new one. I’ll likely be eating floor noodles for the next few days since we aren’t allowed to eat outside of the kitchen?? Happens.”
35. “My dad is the most stubborn and cheap man I have ever met.”
“None of these batteries are rechargeable, but my dad recharges them because ‘It works. That’s what they say because they want you to keep buying batteries. I charge them and they last a month or more in the remote'”