In life, there are things we can control and things we can’t. But the humbling part is, it only takes one moment of the second to completely cancel out all the effort of the first. That’s just the unfair, unavoidable nature of bad luck.
Sadly, these poor souls had to learn that lesson the hard way. What they went through is so absurdly unfortunate that it’s hard not to feel for them—even if you can’t help but laugh a little too. Scroll down and give them some sympathy, because they’ve well and truly earned it.
#1 WCGW When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf?
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#2 At A Family Birthday Party, I Thought I Would Do The Fatherly Thing And Play A Little Soccer With My Daughter
As I approached her to try to steal the ball, she sent a rocket in my direction. We switched to football for the rest of the afternoon.
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#3 Last Food In The Fridge. Made Feta, Tomato And Leek. Bottom Glass Part Just Blew Up From Temperature…
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#4 Came Home To A Car In My Pool
Ok a little more context: I am not the owner so I really don’t know the cost, but I will try to find that out.
Driver was a man in maybe his 30s-ish?
There are apartments across the alley. We think he was parked in front of the apartments, and then tried to peel out, but backed up way too hard and way too fast.
The pool is being drained. It’s full of glass and car chemicals so I assume it will need to be professionally cleaned.
The tow truck driver went on top of the car and had to break the side windows to hook up the cables through the sunroof and side windows. The pool is COLD. I made him some tea.
The driver was able to climb out the sunroof before it fully went under.
I really don’t know any specifics as to why/how this happened. Doesn’t sound like any drugs or alcohol were involved but really, only the cops know.
Car went in around 9:30pm, the whole process of towing it out went until about 3:30am.
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#5 I’ve Heard Of “Painting Yourself Into A Corner” But My Wife Took It A Step Further. I Don’t Even Know
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#6 My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweater… Is This The Lewk?!
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#7 Dropped My Cologne In My Sink
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#8 Yesterday My Pen Exploded In My Dryer. Today, This When I Get Home After Another 13 Hour Work Day
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#9 Mowing The Lawn For The First Time This Season And The Mower Picked Up A Rock And Shot It Through My Front Door
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#10 Got Stuck In An Elevator In My Apartment Building, Was Told About 40 Minutes Until The Tech Arrives And I Have To Go To The Bathroom
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#11 Have Cats They Said, It’ll Be Fun They Said (No Cats Were Harmed And No Plants Were Seriously Injured)
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#12 What Are The Odds?
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#13 Found At 7am Monday Morning
While trying to head to work no less. Do I cry or laugh? both? The car is likely totaled, first time for everything!
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#14 Got Home From Work Today
Realized I’ve been walking around meeting clients with a giant 6-7 in rip in my pants that no one said anything about. So I figured the internet should also know.
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#15 Slipped In The Shower, Landed On The Toilet
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#16 Some How The AirPods Landed On My Watch
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#17 My Mom Forgot That She Was Making Syrup. She Left It At Medium Heat For 2 Hours
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#18 I Didn’t Export My Pictures Before Reformatting My SD Card. Everything Is Gone
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#19 Somebody Left A Car Under A Leaking Pipe
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#20 Karma, The Non-Reddit Kind
Dude tries to get around a line of stopped cars and drivers right into fresh cement.
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#21 I Mean, I Didn’t Want To Eat It Anyway
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#22 My Cola Exploaded Inside The Freezer
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#23 My Mom Was Just Finishing Cleaning The Kitchen And Then Spilled A Bag Of Chia Seeds On The Ground
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#24 Attempted To Take $60 Out. Got Stuck And I Couldn’t Get It Out. Then It Came Back In And Still Took $60 Out Of My Account!
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#25 A Drunk Driver Drove Right Through My Garage!
Plus he crashed into my neighbor’s garage, taking out his fence and finally stopped when he crashed into my backyard fence. He didn’t have insurance either.
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#26 I Didn’t Even Know This Could Happen
Today I learnt that you can loose the keypad of your car keys.
I also learnt that the car won’t start with just the analog part of the key (yes, I’m *that* oblivious to how car works).
The keypad is nowhere to be found and I’m stuck at work waiting for my husband to pick me up, so much for my Saturday night!
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#27 On The Second Shovel Full My Trusty Shovel Called It Quits Today
We got about a foot and I only got enough to open the front door. Luckily my wife and I can work from home. There’s at least 20 inches plowed in front of our driveway as well. Good times.
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#28 Bottom Part Came Off
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#29 I Just Spent Over An Hour In Traffic On My Way To Work. Only Then I Looked Down
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#30 So My Brother Decided To Take His Anger Out On Something Of Mine
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#31 Forgetting About Your Pizza For 8 Hours. Burnt So Bad It Looks Like A Double-Chocolate Brownie
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#32 Dropped My Freshly Baked Sourdough Loaf In A Cleaning Bucket
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#33 First Time Smoking
Just got a smoker, left it in a little too long. I also didn’t have the meat thermometer to that tells you what the temp is for the meat.
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#34 I Came Out Of My Hotel To This
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#35 We Paint Roads, Here’s An Unlucky Individual Who Couldn’t Stay Off Our Fresh Line And Drove Down The Line For About 1/4 Of A Mile
It was so bad that it was still dripping when we caught up with them.
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#36 This Feels Like A Metaphor For Something
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#37 My Car This Morning
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#38 I Made Coffee While I Was Still Half-Asleep
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#39 I’ll Just Do My Makeup In The Car Like A Stupid Idiot
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#40 It’s 3:00am. Everyone’s Asleep And I’ve Been Trying To Get Out Of My Room For 30 Minutes
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#41 I Dropped A Pot Through My Parents’ Stove Top While Putting Dishes Away
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#42 Somebody Rearranged The Keys In Computer Class
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#43 Hope Your Thursday Is Going Better
Cooked lunch -> open cupboard to get plates and voila.
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#44 My Fork’s Transition To A Poorly Engineered Spork
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#45 Forced To Gate Check Guitar, Got It Back Split In Half
Long story short, I’m never flying with a soft shell guitar case anymore. Definitely at least partially my fault to not have had it better protected, but this hadn’t been an issue for the past 3 years until my latest delta flight…
Was told to gate check my $1000+ guitar in its soft shell case (i know, stupid, but much easier to carry it as a backpack than haul around a hard shell case when you have suitcases) by flight crew on my 6 hour flight across the US.
Even with strings almost fully loosened, and two thick sweatshirts wrapped around it, I guess the handling was too much for her.
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#46 The Service Of This Maybach Didn’t Go As Planned
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#47 I Made A Lasagna For Lunch. Here’s The Result
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#48 Came Home From Vacation To Find Our Fish Tank Leaked Into My Floor While We Were Gone
nicolishna:
did the fish survive?
Metroid413:
Axolotl! And yes, luckily he’s chill. We lost about 40 of 55 gallons through a slower leak. EDIT: Hijacking this top-comment to add that this picture is AFTER I DRILLED DRAIN HOLES. It was not dripping like this the whole time.
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#49 Met Her On Tinder, Can’t Tell If This Was A Red Flag And I Got Out Early, Or Just Plain Unlucky
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#50 What Do I Do Now?
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#51 Anyone Else Having This Kind Of Day?
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#52 Vending Machine Misfortune
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#53 Chicken Stuck In Freezer Door
Wife put chicken in freezer for dinner on a later day. Now, it’s frozen, and we can’t get it out of the door. We’ve tried a hair dryer, hand warmers, and hot water. We don’t necessarily want to break off the plastic piece, but I am running out of patience and ideas.
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#54 Bottom Of My Mug Fell Off, Full Mug Of Tea Everywhere
I noticed that there was tea pooling around the bottom of my mug, and I picked it up and bam. The bottom of the mug just fell off, and tea went everywhere. I’ve never seen this happen before.
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#55 Looks Like I Need To Buy Some More Laundry Detergent
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#56 The TV Fell On My Dinner
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#57 Guess I’m Fueling Up Elsewhere
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#58 I Was Looking Forward To Eating That. The Top Of The Pepper Came Off And Went Everywhere. I Was Sneezing For An Hour Afterwards
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#59 Apparently, My Scissors Couldn’t Handle A Koolaid Bursts Bottle
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#60 I Completely Forgot About This Bottle Of Water Standing On Balcony For Two Months (It Was -20c Outside )
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#61 Well, That’s What I Get For Trying To Tidy Up My Pantry
Was just trying to clean off some items from my countertop including a COSTCO size bottle of red wine. Accidentally hit it against a bottle of champagne, mind you I don’t even drink it’s just what I keep on hand for entertaining. And yes, the shelves are permanently stained. But at least they’re pink.
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#62 My Basement Flooded With Shin Deep Water
I spent about 6 hours throwing everything away. My water heater exploded, and there was a simultaneous failure in the floor drain so none of the water drained. I didn’t find the flooding for about 30 minutes and came down to water streaming out of my water heater like a pressure washer. I’m just glad I was home.
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#63 My Submission For Dumbest Way To Injure Yourself
I burnt my hand taking tomato soup out of the microwave. The toast I was making popped up and it scared me.
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#64 Came Home Late From Work, Drop My Open Sandwhich 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.
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#65 When You Thought You Hit 1:00 On The Microwave, But It Was 10:00
It was a blueberry muffin with a small pat of butter.
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#66 Can You Guess What Scared The Heck Out Of My Wife And I At 2 Am
This mirror was like 10 ft and came with the house when we bought it. I thought someone shattered our window in the bathroom and was breaking in or the shower glass shattered…
2 hours later I’m still cleaning glass off the floor lol.
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#67 International Flight, Middle Seat, Only Person On The Entire Full Flight With A Broken TV
I was extremely excited for the new United IFE screen, I’ve been wanting to try it forever. I even looked up movies and shows weeks before hand so I knew what I wanted to watch.
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#68 First Day Back From Holiday And Restaurant Catches Fire, Nice
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#69 Loaded The Heavy Stuff First, Tipped Over The Trailer
Moving day went wrong in Florida today. Had to climb out onto the roof. Nobody was seriously hurt.
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#70 Empty Mozzarella Sticks
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#71 Opened A Bottle Of Homemade Cherry Schnapps Inside. It Fermented. This Is My Mom’s Ceiling Now
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#72 Car Wash Fun
It was warm enough for the car wash to be open, so I brought my car through first, then went back for my truck. I was finishing up when the exit door shut on my hood, with, like, 45 seconds to go yet for drying.
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#73 Overripe Bananers
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#74 Thought I Was Being Clever By Picking The Biggest Sandwich In The Case. So Much Bread
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#75 Two Year Old Put A T-Ball Tube Down Car Exhaust
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#76 I Thought This Plastic On My New Washer Was A Protective Film
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#77 Fell For The Hype… This Is What I Opened From The Blind Box
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#78 Dropped My Airpod
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#79 My 20$ Pair Of Nike Socks After Wearing Them 4 Times
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