35 Expensive Fails And Accidents That’ll Make You Feel Better About Your Own Bad Day
I dropped my phone in a parking lot last week and cracked the screen, and I spent a solid ten minutes feeling like the unluckiest person alive over what turned out to be a $40 repair. Then I made the mistake of scrolling through photos of other people’s actual disasters, and suddenly my cracked screen felt like a rounding error.
Nothing resets your perspective on a bad day quite like watching someone else’s five-figure mistake unfold in a single photo.
These accidents and mishaps were expensive enough, and avoidable enough, that you’ll walk away feeling weirdly great about how your week is actually going.
1. “Company Owner Decided To Stop Paying His Drivers So One Of Them Parked Their Semi On The Owners Ferrari And Just Left It There”
2. “I Just Broke A $5,000.00 Bottle Of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac At Work”
3. “Been Waiting 6 Weeks For A Rather Expensive Toilet So We Can Fit It At A Client’s House, It Has Finally Arrived”
4. “Dropped My Wedding Ring This Morning”
5. “My Dad’s Old Truck Got Hit By A Truck Carrying Old Rotten Potato Slurry To A Feed Lot For Cows. His Passenger Window Was Down”
6. “My Boss Installed A Water Dispenser Yesterday. This Morning, We Got Into The Office To This”
7. “Came Home Late From Work, Drop My Open Sandwich In The Parking Lot. Go To Make Pasta, The First Pot Slips And I Pour It All On The Ground. Make A Second Pot And The Handle Straight Up Breaks And My Pasta Goes Everywhere. Didn’t Eat; Had A Lil Cry”
8. “Someone Lost Their $1100 Sunglasses On The Sidewalk By My Apartment”
9. “Broke The Window At Work”
“Was so stressed this morning that I accidentally bumped my pallet into the window just BARELY, but apparently good enough!”
10. “Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day”
11. “Just Got Home From A Brutal Shift On Labor Day- And Discovered I Left A Whole Bag Of Groceries I Bought Last Night In My Hot Car”
12. “Neighbors Removed Their Retaining Wall Without Realizing It Was Providing Support For This Other Wall, Ultimately Leading To Its Failure”
13. “When You Accidentally Use The Wrong Spray On Your Lawn”
14. “I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absentmindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here’s Us Separating 10,000 Beans…By Hand”
15. “Halfway Through My Run”
16. “My Watch Fell Into The Wood Chipper At Work”
17. “Misread The ‘Minus’ Checkboxes On The Delivery App And Successfully Paid $25 For Two Empty Toasted Buns.”
“Thought I was treating myself to a Whopper. Turns out I accidentally opted out of the meat, lettuce, cheese, and all the sauces. Shoutout to the staff for not questioning my sanity and executing this perfectly.”
18. “My Neighbor Parks This Expensive Car On The Street”
19. “Someone At Porsche Is Getting Fired Today”
20. “Expensive Mistake”
21. “Tried To Squash A Bug In My Car”
“I felt like I barely hit it. I can’t believe it broke, I just got it tinted 2 months ago”
22. “Today At Work, A Coworker Crashed A Trolley Full Of Plates Needed For A Function”
23. “Moved Into The New House And Found Out Our Toddler Broke Our 65” TV”
24. “Framed The Door In, Boss”
25. “Coworker Had An Accident In The Yard And Punctured A Tanker Car Full Of Hot Asphalt”
26. “Just Bought This Underwater Protective Case In Thailand And Went Swimming With It”
27. “Pillow Exploded In Dryer And Looks Like Fried Rice”
28. “Paint Store Guy Didn’t Close The Can Properly”
“Bought a car one week ago, more expensive than I could really afford but so beautiful. Picked up paint while on vacation to paint my mom’s house. Teenager working at paint store apparently didn’t close the can properly. That’s 1 gallon of slightly greenish gray wall paint on the floor of my new car. Paint store guy’s response was to apologize profusely, give me another gallon of paint, and throw in a free tub of miracle wipes. Lovely.”
29. “Dog Ate My Passport One Day Before Returning Home. Luckily I Don’t Need It LOL”
30. “There Is A Reason Oven Racks Exist”
“Wife thought the bottom of the oven was a good place to set the glass cookware for baking when the racks were full. Exploded when removed and set on the stove, ruining dinner.”
31. “Phone Purchased At 10:20am, Black Ice Got Me At 1:30pm”
32. “Sold My iPad In Public Space At Night In Minnesotan -10f Temperature, Turned Out It’s Fake”
33. “You Can’t Park There Sir”
34. “Coworker Thought My Mug Warmer Was A Charger”
35. “Liquid Bleach Dripping From The Maids Cart All The Way Down The Hall Of My Hotel”
