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It’s been another week of minor annoyances, small frustrations, and everyday moments that make you question humanity’s collective decision-making skills.
From awful luck to packaging designed by enemies of joy, we’ve rounded up some mildly infuriating pictures that will make you nod in recognition while your eye twitches ever so slightly.
Consider this your weekly reminder that we’re all suffering through the same small indignities together.
1. “I got uninvited to a friend’s holiday potluck, while I was on my way to it.”
“I was invited to a potluck hosted by a friend, and was told that it was happening 3 weeks in advance.
The day of the dinner, my mom and I cooked some food to bring. I texted my friend a heads up that I was on my way to theirs. They replied saying that the dinner location was changed to a different friend’s house in the next city over, about 20 miles away.
I started driving towards the city and asked for the address. They said everyone was already there and that there wasn’t enough room for me. I tried following up but didn’t hear anything else from them afterwards, and I didn’t want to make a scene by texting other people that were there, as most were friend-adjacent for me.
I cut my losses, turned around and went home. I got an apology text a couple of days afterwards, but felt like the rug got pulled from under me. Super frustrating situation all around.”
2. “Manager took us out for treat and just bought this. We were 5 people”
“This man omg. We’ve had a very busy week working around a new database system lanceDB and we all have been putting extra hours to get used to it and set it up. It has been really difficult and time consuming because it’s really really complex and unclear in a lot of aspects but it was finally done. We were all happy and manager decided he wanna treat us. He brought us all to a nearby café and ordered this. Just one dessert for 5 people. Please don’t come at me for being greedy or something. This man earns double triple than us and then acts like this.”
3. “Co-worker thought this was a harmless prank.”
“I went out to my car to find a coworker had dumped the contents of the shredder in the front and backseat of my car. Everyone thought I overreacted a little, but this will take me a long time to clean up all the way. I’m right to think this isn’t a very good joke right?”
4. “This package for this ‘yard’ of snickers is incredibly misleading”
“I don’t even care that there are only 18 bars, as it says on the box. Just make the package smaller so as to not be do deceptive”
5. “It’s cool. He wants to go 63 mph and you want to go 63.5 mph. Please take 10 minutes to work this out.”
6. “I live 3 miles away from my work. It takes me 45 minutes to get home from work everyday.”
“And they are putting in 6 new apartment complexes. Not buildings but whole complexes. There is no route around that I can take.”
7. “Boss just walks up and starts editing files on my PC”
“He has access on his own system. Still chooses to come to my desk and interrupt whatever I’m doing.
…..multiple times in a day.”
8. “DoorDashed drink I got with some food”
9. “Kid locked the key in the lock”
10. “For my entire life, my dad cuts steak in half to see if they’re done cooking”
“And he will even ask how we want our steaks done…no matter what anyone says, they all come out the same way, well done with a cut in the middle:”
11. “Why do they make it weird and make me have to point at my sign lol”
“Our neighborhood gets hit really hard with solicitors so we bought this friendly sign for our front door hoping it would help. It. Does. Nothing. ‘Oh yeah I saw it but…'”
12. “I’m a teacher. Admin said they were going to have hot chocolate for us today.. This was in our mailboxes.”
13. “Found the machine like this, can’t even think of how it could have happened”
“Apparently the machine was making some funny sounds but nothing too strange, according to the family. Found this at the end of the cycle though. I couldn’t untwist the clothes out of it either so the house will definitely smell damp for a while smh”
14. “Husband’s new gf posted my daughter’s initials on their family Christmas stocking picture on FB”
15. “My wife traded over $3000 worth of rare coins for a couple of dollar bills and left me some Chuck E. Cheese tokens”
“I’ve been collecting rare coins since I was a kid. I’ve had this jar for over 35 years on my bookshelf. She’s never noticed it even once in the 25 years of our relationship.
She brought it to a knitting store on Friday and traded them for a couple of one dollar bills. I had a small handful of silver quarters and some rare nickels. Two of the nickels were valued at over US$1300.
We’re supposed to leave in half an hour for our anniversary trip and I am mildly infuriated.”
16. “My fiancé’s deodorant”
“My fiancé insists on using every last speck of deodorant before notifying me that we need to make a trip to get more. Is this a common man thing???
I swear he isn’t stinky, but those armpits must be exfoliated at this point”
17. “Fourth dimension shattered”
18. “Not only did the pencils not come in color order but they are tiny”
“The color order is whatever but them being tiny and it never stating that on the box feels like a huge scam”
19. “Grinch Repellant Glitter”
“The kindergarten sent our child home with a bag full of green glitter and told them to dump it in the back yard so the grinch doesn’t mess up our holiday. So now we have huge pile of glitter in the entryway to our backyard (i.e. the main entrance we use to outside)”
20. “My Sister decorated the Family TV (apparently my mom allowed it)”
“The stars are actually glued on there and I don’t understand how anyone thought that this was a good Idea…
It was pretty cute to see how proud my sister was though. She’s four so I don’t really think that she’s at fault here.”
21. “I accidentally placed the microwave cover in the oven, so now I have plastic pizza”
“I only realized my mistake when the timer finished and I opened the oven. I think this is gonna be one of those embarrassing moments I will think about years later”
22. “I have to carve my way out to the rack. (Just a pic of how the dumbbells are kept in my gym.)”
23. “Heard a bang downstairs. Slow cooker lid shattered in place after about 7 hours, pork roast ruined.”
24. “They’re already selling Valentine’s Day merch… the week before Christmas”
25. “Went to Taj Mahal and it looked like this the whole time i was there.”
26. “Vehicles that hold 0.9 gallon of washer fluid so you have to store the remainder of the bottle until later.”
27. “This car hauler has a purple floodlight blinding every car behind them”
28. “Bought a new jumper, guess I should have read the fine print.”
29. “My mother yells at me to clean up the kitchen. She is the only allowed to drink the Coke Zeros”
30. “My dad’s boss gave him a blank pack of Thank You cards as his Christmas gift. He’s worked there for two decades.”
31. “I made the exact number of cookies I needed and one broke…”
32. “Scotch tape should be ashamed of themselves for selling mostly empty spools.”
33. “Relevant mail (left) vs junk mail (right)”
34. “Tried to buy magnets. Received wood/cardboard circles painted with magnetic paint.”
35. “Whoever thought placing this here is good Idea needs to be fired”
Nate writes for Pleated-Jeans and enjoys finding the internet’s funniest corners so you don’t have to.
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