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“Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It”: 50 Times People Witnessed Annoyingly Imperfect Things
A significant number of people have a personality trait that makes them pursue flawlessness. Known as perfectionists, they can feel severely disturbed by even the smallest mistakes and errors, which often make their lives quite challenging.Not sure if you are one? The pictures you’ll find below are a great test to find that out. If you cringe at every single one, chances are that you have a perfectionist hiding inside of you.
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#1
This Chandelier At A Restaurant I Ate At Bothers Me So Much
I’ll be honest, I lost my appetite.
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#2
Faux Tile Done
I saw it in the bathroom at the nail salon where I got a pedicure.
#3
I Got A New Faber-Castell Colour Pencils Today And I Saw This Pencils Label
It’s been bothering me for hours.
#4
My Puzzle Is Missing One Piece, But Has A Duplicate Of Another Piece
#5
I Declare War On The Temperature People. Ruined The Perfect Photo
#6
At My Parents House
#7
My Husband Got Me Some Gifts To Help Challenge My OCD In Small, Manageable Ways
I don't know what I find more upsetting: the lopsided notebook or the lack of alignment on the dots of the die.
#8
I Get Mad Every Time I Walk Past This
#9
I Know You Felt The Same Pain Before
#10
The Door Of This House
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
The only way to make this work would be to find a way to redirect a visitor’s gaze. The door is supposed to be at the centre, so the empty space to our left on the porch would need to be filled with something to distract the eye from the uneven balance. Maybe a wall trellis, with a table and chair. Maybe something to hang from either ‘window’ of the patio to make it more of a room rather than entrance, like vines or lights or bug curtains.
#11
This Floor Alignment
This is The floor at my school. The only place where the alignment is off, further in the corridor the alignment is perfect.
#12
This Christmas Tree
Uncle Panda 1 year ago
I can see a late night episode of dragging it off center as a prank but why would you do this on purpose?
#13
Almost Perfect
#14
Whoever Made This Clearly Shouldn't Have
#15
This Manhole Cover
#16
Maintenance Replaced A Lightbulb Today
And honestly it might bother me enough to go buy three matching ones myself. Good grief.
#17
Light-Switch Is Installed And It Fits Perfect
#18
Every Sink In This Bathroom Has A Different Faucet
#19
Brand New Ketchup. Taller Bottle, Same Volume, No Longer Fits In Cupboard
#20
Mildly Infuriating Level : Refund
The waffles are probably not very interesting hahah because the results aren't too bad. At least still looks like a mini waffle. But it probably doesn't look good either... I'm not a very good waffle maker.
I actually don't mind keeping it! But still trying my best to get a refund or send me a new set of properly mirrored pans.
#21
This Shelf Setup That Makes It Nearly Impossible To Grab A Jar Of Salsa
#22
I’m Annoyed Every Time I See This
#23
How Papa John’s Cut This Pizza
#24
Why?
Uncle Panda 1 year ago (edited)
In the last few weeks, I've repositioned or added approximately 25 outlets and switches because I had the walls open as part of a general rehab of a 95 year old log cabin. That outlet is likely attached to a stud (to the right is my guess) and was installed before the trim pieces were mounted. That kind of outlet can be moved a few inches, but somehow the stud is always in the way of the direction you need to move.
#26
The Picture Speaks For Itself
Wow, and also the person's house I was in with this light didn’t even bother fixing it! Which makes me infuriated.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
For some reason we have one 'cool' and one 'warm' white globe in the lights in my lounge room. The warm one is also much dimmer. Mildly annoying, but I can't be bothered fixing it because I have to get a pretty high step to change them, where as my dad only needs a small one, so I just ignore it. If I ever have the energy to be bothered I will change it, until then I can't complain.
#27
Newly Renovated
#28
This Poster At Work Bothers Me Everyday. Once You See It, You Can't Unsee It
It was the fact the fingers don't match. But now I see a willy and can't unsee it thanks to reddit comments. I hate the poster more now.
#29
Who Needs A Perfectly Useful Drain?
#30
Mildly Infuriating Lights In A Hotel
DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
Not only do I hate the placement, but I also hate the lights themselves.
#31
How This TV Isn’t Centered On The Wall
#33
Why?
#34
I Just Bought These Books And Why Is 2 Uneven
Seriously I ordered a replacement.
#35
The Alignment Of These Doorknobs In My New Apartment
This door is actually the entrance to my bedroom, when I am home next I will be sure to do some closer investigating. Hopefully it has just been installed upside down/backwards which would be an easy fix! Thanks for the pointers friends, all I see when I look over at night are these two knobs staring me down with their imperfections.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
Surely the door isn't just upside down because the handle would be on the outside of door,next to frame, when flipped?
#36
I See This Every Day And It Drives Me Mad
The rest of the path is perfectly normal - but this one section is completely out of order, like someone did this and now it lives in my head rent free every day.
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
With the correct hook you can lift this out and switch it round. I swear road workers do this sh1t deliberately to mess with OCDers'
#37
The Way These Lights Are Aligned
#38
The Design Of This Bathroom Wall. It Is Very Disorienting
#39
This Unevenly Distributed V-Shape
#40
As You Love To Hate Broken Patterns So Much. I Ride My Bike Across It When I Do Groceries
I live in the Netherlands and this is in Beek en Donk and believe it might be in the Beek section of.
#41
This Is Really Bothering Me In My New Flat
#43
My Dad Does This To Avoid Cutting Pepperoni
#44
The Position Of These Comic Books
#45
This Bottle Cannot Stand On Its Own But Will Leak If Left Horizontal
#46
Planted The Palm Tree Near The Light Boss
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
"Can you explain this?" - Okay, bit of a stretch but, the tree was delivered before the work crew was available to dig up the paving and plant it so the tree delivery people secured the tree in a location near to the site but out of reach of vandals.
#47
Would This Bother You?
Our leaning tower of bookshelf. Been leaving going on three years and it leans more with each passing year. No one’s bothered to replace it. No one’s bothered to figure out how to straighten it. It’s actually quite funny, “huh, does it look like it’s leaning more to you?”
#48
Thread Ran Out Partially Through The Body, And I Replaced It With A Different Spool Of The Same Thread Color From The Same Brand But The Colors Off
I can go over the initial part with the new thread but like bruh...
#49
Was Driving Home And Spotted This Little Gem. Why?
#50
One Wrong Colored Crate Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
#52
The Armrests Are Uneven In Size
#53
Been Living Here For 22 Years And I Just Noticed The Lights Aren't Aligned
Also, the door on the right at the bottom of the rug always swings and catches it, its a lost cause in my household.
#54
This Doesn’t Line Up
#56
The Straw Hole Is Off Center
#57
Mildly Infuriating Door Near Bristol, England
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Makes sense to me, you quite often have to work around old buildings' quirks. A smaller entrance way was needed but the door still needed an upright so it could be locked. The building I live in (600 years old) has many little oddities.
#59
Now That We Sold The House I Can Safely Post This
I noticed the posts shortly after we moved in a couple years ago and was bothered by them every day. But I didn't say anything to the wife cause she would have made me do more renos.
A couple days before move out she noticed it too.
#60
Bought 16k Dice For A Mosaic, All From The Same Supplier, Supposedly The Same Size... The Black Ones Are ≈1.25% Smaller
I mean, they're listed as 8mm dice, after some closer research, the white ones are about 7.85mm on average and black 7.57 considering both can be rounded to 8, and we're talking a difference of 0.28mm here, I'm thinking they aren't going to take me too seriously... That and I literally searched for hours to find the absolute cheapest source I could since I was buying 16,000. Even 1¢ a piece would be $160. And would you expect better than 0.2mm precision for 1¢/die?
I just expected whatever manufacturing process they used would have high variance die to die, but not color to color.
#61
That One Green Locker Among All The Other Orange Ones
#62
This Almost Perfect Pancake I Made
#63
My Pizza Shaped Playing Cards Aren’t In Perfect Eighths
#65
Almost Gave Up Looking For This Markers Refill Ink Because Of How Vastly Different The Colors Are On The Caps
The ink itself is much more similar to the refill cap, which is the lighter of the two. The refill is a much newer product than the marker I have so they knew the color was off and corrected it.
quentariel 1 year ago
I hate this so much. You can never trust the cork/head color to be anywhere near the actual color anyway, and this difference makes it abundantly clear.
#66
Don't Know If This Fits In This Subreddit, But The Rock Was Easily Moveable And Fit In My Palm
#67
Sharing My Easter Cake With Three Friends: One Already Ate His "Equally And Fairly“ Share
"See? I cut at right angles!"
#68
Why Would Anyone Do This
#69
Amazon Sent Me The Wrong Size Book In A Trilogy
I’m going to Barnes and Noble tomorrow to hopefully fix this nonsense. My OCD is screeching right now lol. I could order a replacement on Amazon but that takes two days and I don’t wanna look at this for two days. I’m just getting into reading. I’ve bought quite a few books, mostly from the action/adventure, fantasy, and science fiction genres along with a couple horror books.
#73
I Wish I Hadn't Bothered Aligning Them So I Never Would've Noticed
#74
My Eyes Are Bleeding
I must say, it's an odd style. Or, if the purpose is to hurt my nerves when looking at it, well, purpose accomplished.
#76
The Way This Sign Is Off Center
#77
The Alignment Of The Tower And The Entrance
#78
The Color Pencils Aren't Lined Up With The Box Image Ones
#80
Just Hung My TV On The Wall, Look How It Fits Perfectly. Can You See Why I’m Mad Now?
#81
Washer (Right) And Dryer (Left) Placement For The House I'm Sitting
#84
Building My House And The Concreter Just Finished The Driveway. This Will Bother Me For The Rest Of My Life
#86
This Baseball Park
#89
Order Of Fig Spread Came Into Work Today
#90
Domino's Pizza
Michael Largey 1 year ago
When asked whether he wanted his pizza cut into six slices or eight, Yogi Berra replied "Six. I don't think I could eat eight slices."
#91
Wife And I Got New Silverware For Christmas
I was hoping that I’d be posting on perfectfit or oddlysatisfying but well here we are. Using the same “every other” spacing for all (yes I know I could squeeze it in another space that’s open) at the very end I ended up with a sole leftover.
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Lady Eowyn 1 year ago
This is not what OCD is. Being bothered by things like this is more related to autism. Speaking as someone on the spectrum.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
The title of this list is not ok. OCD is a debilitating mental health condition and you are minimising it by using it as a "fun" title. Liking things to be neat and organised is not OCD, it is just liking things neat and organised. Read up on what it is really like to have OCD and educate yourself.
Kohl_Keene 1 year ago
Agreed. My daughter was diagnosed as a child. She battles it everyday and had to do an outpatient hospitalization to overcome it. It goes far beyond wanting to have corners line up 🤦🏽♀️
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
The PB software rotates titles. So the other one may come back.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 1 year ago
This is not what OCD is. Being bothered by things like this is more related to autism. Speaking as someone on the spectrum.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
The title of this list is not ok. OCD is a debilitating mental health condition and you are minimising it by using it as a "fun" title. Liking things to be neat and organised is not OCD, it is just liking things neat and organised. Read up on what it is really like to have OCD and educate yourself.
Kohl_Keene 1 year ago
Agreed. My daughter was diagnosed as a child. She battles it everyday and had to do an outpatient hospitalization to overcome it. It goes far beyond wanting to have corners line up 🤦🏽♀️
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
The PB software rotates titles. So the other one may come back.
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