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It can be quite easy to misuse objects if you're not familiar with the design. Even things that are obvious in hindsight – for example, the tab on a soda can being used to hold a straw, are rarely known until they are pointed out.

However, some things are obvious full stop. Like chucking your clothes in a microwave to dry, or ironing a cheese sandwich. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, is a series of times when people totally misused common household objects, either knowingly or not, with hilarious consequences. Scroll down below to check out what we mean, and tell us your own stories in the comments!

#1

I once had a friend casually say “you know how when you run out of toilet paper, so you just use a sock or whatever?” No the f**k I do not, Sandra, Jesus Christ.

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#2

Coworker decided to boil her sausages (her lunch) in the office's electric kettle, therefore causing it to overflow, to leak on the electrical outlet and to cause a blackout for our whole entire floor (150 people). Not to mention the murder / baptism (?) of our brand new carpet.

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#3

I was doing a internship in a small office and the engineer (yeah he is engineer) needed to take out the trash from the trash bin (it had a plastic bag with the trash) . He open a new plastic bag (I though it was to replace the old full one) and asked my help to hold it while he threw all the trash from the bin to the new plastic bag instead of just take the trash from the old plastic bag and replace for the new one. I was so confused...

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#4

I did not witness it but my grandma had used a vibrator as a massaging stick for her back pain because the box had stated 'massage stick'. The way we found out was hilarious though.

When we visited her one day she started telling how she went to the shop where she bought her massage stick and asked the boy to change the batteries. She did not understand why the boy had refused and why he acted weird. Then she asked my mom if she could change the batteries and gave my mom the vibrator. I still feel sorry for the kid behind the counter at the shop.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, the Hitachi magic wand (which is nowadays used as a vibrator) was originally meant to be used to alleviate sore muscles in the neck and such in the 60s, but women who bought them used them for completely different things

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#5

Walked into my sister's room and she had maxi pads laying everywhere with Barbie's on top. She's like, look at all these Barbie sleeping bags I found.

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#6

I caught a friend of mine rubbing one of the antibacterial hand wipes from KFC all over his friends chicken. The little packet said 'a hint of lemon' on it, and he thought that he was meant to flavour the chicken with it...

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#7

Using my fabric shears to cut wire and plastic packaging. And now he's butthurt that my new fabric shears have a padlock through the handles.

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#8

When I was a kid, my mother used a pasta spoon to clean the cat litter box. I thought this was normal because it was the only way I'd ever seen it used. Then, years after our cat died, I was eating dinner at a friend's house when the mom grabbed the same kind of utensil to serve spaghetti. I freaked out and shouted "why are you serving food with a poop scoop?!" They were so confused and I couldn't eat my dinner because I was so disturbed.

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#9

I caught a roommate cleaning our bathroom counter top with the toilet brush.

He's a doctor now.

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#10

Man, I threw a major fit when I saw a visiting relative get my $100 chefs knife to screw a screw.

What's the big deal? - he asked. Well... if you gotta ask...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ye. Get this. Been married twice, and both husbands twisted the sharp pointy ends of ALL my best sharp kitchen knives. I know I am not alone here. We did have toolkits, but they had to go to the shed. ALL THE WAY TO THE SHED. Lol. Memories eh?

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#11

My wife once watched a girl at work stick a ball of aluminum into a microwave with her instant ramen during a break. She said, "the Sparks are just because it's heating up faster," as if it were common knowledge.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a terrrible cook! terrible. But I even know not to put *any* metal in microwave. And only put eggs without their shells in there.

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#12

My mom's coworker (or maybe even her ex boss) used the plastic page protectors for office binders in a wrong way. The page protectors have only one opening on top as everyone knows, but she would always turn them upside down and then used a billion of paperclips on the bottom to prevent papers from falling out.

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#13

Girlfriends brother using my $125 chef's knife to chop ice.

I did make a scene.

got rid of both.

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Martha Meyer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm imagining a gruesome kitchen knife murder now. Was this written from prison?

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#14

This was a story that a colleague told me that happened on the day I was off back in the day I used to work for a hotel.

Apparently some Chinese guests came to reception to complain that the microwave wasn't working. We didn't have microwaves in the room, so when coming to inspect the problem, she found out that they were trying to microwave a pizza... in the room's safe.

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#15

Using a microwave to dry clothes... There were flames

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nowadays, microwave. Previously, it was using the oven to dry clothing. Same result.

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Mirek Hotový
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Using oven to dry clothes actually makes logical sense (dry heat blowing actually) while using radio micro waves is very far from any logic when used for drying purposes.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol remind me if Seinfeld when kramer wants toasty warm clothes so he ends up having his clothes put in a pizza oven!

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Miss_H84
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum did the same thing but with a mobile phone she dropped in a glass of booze. She was drunk of course.

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Sadie Jayne
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should open a zoo for the most stupid people in captivity....

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Bob Beltcher
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I delivered pizza for several years while in college. I hate when people ordered and it was raining hard out. In between deliveries I would place my shirt on top of the oven. The material was so thin it only took about a minute on each side to dry. Pizza ovens are kept at 550 (about 300 Celsius).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen that. Drying baby things in the microwave. But she forgot about the little snaps and things. Fire ensued.

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fernando garcia fragoso
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who do this? And why? That's nonsense! I mean, if you want your clothes dry, put them on the ceiling fan and that's it. :P

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sounds like bull to be honest, since water (and thus the clothes it's soaked into) won't get hotter than 100°C whereas the ignition temp of most clothing fibers is several hundreads. Different story if the clothes were so drenched that she got the oven to run on steam until short circuit lol

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Hugo Raible
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've done it. Not to dry clothes, but to kill bacteria which were not gone after washing. Just add a glas of water for balance, and do it just for a few seconds. Worked like a charm against the smell.

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M O'Connell
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually one thing the microwave is useful for is drying wet books

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#16

Not really an everyday thing unless youre a tradesman, but ive seen wayyy too many people try to pound screws in with a hammer.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once caught my sister trying to hammer a screw into a wall using a plastic hair brush.

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#17

My friends kid decided to make a grilled cheese sandwich with an iron on the couch. Burned a nice iron shaped hole in the couch. Kid was 15 at the time.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm failing to understand this, I need a better explanation. Are you saying that they put the sandwich on the couch and the iron on top? Why on earth would you do that on the couch of all the places?

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#18

When I was very young I used to think that you had to wedge your entire butt into the toilet seat when you have a s**t. Moment of learning came when we went on holiday somewhere and were exploring the house, I saw the toilet with a much smaller seat than ours and said "that's so small, how am I gonna fit in that to poop?" Needless to say it provided some enjoyment for my parents

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#19

A friend of mine was a first generation migrant to my country and her parents had a dishwasher in their house, but due to never having had one in their home country, saw it as a wasteful appliance to use. So they stored clean pots and pans in it, just like another cabinet.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother hated her dishwasher because it made so much noise, so she never used it and stored her clean pots and pans in it.

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#20

I used to live 2 doors down from the neighborhoods "crazy lady' and she would often vaccuum her grass after it was mowed.

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#21

I didn't witness this, but I read it in a newspaper article a few years ago.

It was this article about life-hacks, and such, and basically what happened was, there was this "hack" going around about how, if you put your toaster on its side, slide in two slices of bread with cheese on top and toast them, you get toast and grilled cheese all at once.

Apparently, this lady tried it and the melting cheese set her toaster on fire. The whole thing went up and nearly burned her entire house down.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also if you put the toaster on its side and don't watch it and take the toast manually out, then the toaster will shoot your toast out on the floor or something

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#22

My high school spanish teacher would use her computer’s disk tray as a shelf for her coffee mug

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#23

I once witnessed a dude washing out condoms and hanging them to dry.

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#24

My dad's old boss asked a dishwasher at work to wash his car. One hour later the boss goes to look at his brand new BMW and the guy had used a pot scourer ( that metal thing used to clean stuff dunno if that's right word "

Needless to say my dad's boss screamed and that guy ran so far he was never seen again.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people just don't know how to say "no" with words, so they find other ways.

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#25

Saw a woman using an Oyster card (it’s a London bus pass the same size and material as a credit card) as a sort of spoon to eat a lasagna out of a Tupperware on the bus

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#26

I have a tiny computer that is extraordinarily powerful, fits in my hand, and has access to the sum total of all human knowledge since the dawn of time, and I use it to watch funny animal videos.

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Suzi Gauthier
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a line from a comedian, but he said we using it to watch funny cat videos & porn.

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#27

My wife routinely uses butter knives as flat screwdrivers. I once caught her using an ice cream scoop as a hammer. We've talked about it, I bought her tools. Now she keeps an old shitty butter knife in the back of the drawer for fast easy battery changes and uses a hammer as a hammer.

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#28

Used to work in a hotel as well. Several times we had Asian guests hang their clothes to dry from the fire sprinklers hanging from their room ceilings... this sets the sprinklers off and caused thousands of dollars of damage to multiple rooms each time it happened. One family was mad at US and wanted compensation for all their wet clothes and electronics. Maybe not applicable here, but we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room" - here in the UK, that's totally acceptable. But the question is... Did he get his tea bags???

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#29

When was the last time you put gloves inside the gloves box of your car?

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#30

One time I saw someone eat Cheetos with a fork. Does that count?

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chi-wei shen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I eat many things with silverware to avoid getting dirty fingers, even though most people wouldn't do so, so why not cheetos?

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#31

Not sure if it counts but I've seen a person to use his phone to take a picture of a comment on his youtube video, take a screenshot of the picture, print it and use his webcamera to show the print of the comment in another youtube video, made solely to reply to said comment.

My brain still hurts

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#32

Using a microwave to "dry" a smartphone.

After running said smartphone under tap water to clean it (this was like 7 years ago, I dont think the phone was waterproof).

Person who did this was good academically but had no common sense whatsoever it baffled me

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Martha Meyer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cleaning with water can work if it's not turned on until it's completely dried again (and the battery is removed beforehand). I've seen people do this sucessfully with desktop computers. Microwaving however... no chance of survival.

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#33

I've seen quite a few times people re-dip knives as spoons in a Nutella jar and obviously lick it. It always grosses me out and once I see it I start refusing invitations for meals.Not that uncommon but utterly yucky!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i ate several times at a friends house, she puts her dishes down for the dog to lick. i can handle that, but the day i saw her putting them back into the cabinate , telling me the dog had cleaned them. was the last day i ever ate there....you have GOT to be kidding??!!

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#34

Once while camping I witnessed a family getting set up. Connect a hose to their car tail pipe and fill up their air mattress with the exhaust.

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#35

Little brother tried to microwave a spoon so it would be warm enough to cut through the ice cream.

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#36

We have a concrete putty knife at work that is used to cut brownies with.

I hear that blade scream in pain with every chop.

I hear you blade, and I feel your pain.

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I've secretly used it to do some minor sheetrock work, so it remembers what it was intended for.

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#37

My stationary / exercise bike makes a wonderful place to hang clothes ( on hangers) to dry.

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#38

Roommates in college used laundry pods in the dishwasher for like a week? I handwashed my dishes, so it did not affect me. They only noticed because I asked why they always left their laundry pods on the kitchen counter.

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Martha Meyer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the ingredients in those two products are probably not so radically different. The laundry pods must be less aggressive though, so I wonder whether they actually cleaned dirty plates?

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#39

We had a housemate who used to get home very drunk and try and cook himself elaborate meals, which always resulted in a lot of mess and noise. To combat this I turned the oven and electrical sockets in the kitchen off when he went out one night. Foolproof

The fool cooked himself steak in the living room with our clothes iron at 3am.

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#40

My best friend uses scissors to cut his pizza. I always imagine Italians screaming when he does that.

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Valerie Lessard
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are kitchen scissors specifically to use on food. Nothing wrong with this if you dont have those fancy pizza cutters

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#41

We weren’t allowed hot plates or microwaves in the college dorms, so one of the girls on my floor cooked bacon with a hair straightener.

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Kaisu
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this in America? Why aren't you allowed hot plates or microwaves? How the hell are you supposed to cook your meals? Can someone American enlighten me

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#42

I saw a video once where a woman was using a drill. Nothing weird right? Well instead of, you know, drilling she took a hammer and put the drill in the wall and started hitting the back of the drill with the hammer.

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#43

Forgot to defrost a Thanksgiving Turkey. Morning of Thankgiving threw frozen turkey in the hot tub

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#44

One of my roommates used a pair of pliers to flip bacon. He did it pretty regularly.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If bought from new and only used for that purpose then that seems okay to me; it grips the bacon rather having it slide all over a spatula.

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#45

This reminds me of the time my bf decided to make homemade lemonade. He was in the kitchen when i heard him struggling and cursing at this lemon squeezer. I came in and saw him then asked what was wrong. He started to rant about this dumb lemon squeezer and how shoddy and ineffective it was. And that these "decorative holes" at the bottom arent doing anything to let the juice flow out. I sincerely had never laughed so hard in my life. He had the lemons in the lemon squeezer in backwards so it wasnt getting any pressure squeezed into the lemon. I took mercy and showed him how he was supposed to position the lemon in the squeezer. Of course he got much more juice out of it then. I think he felt kind of dumb but to be fair he is korean american too. His family probably never made lemonade growing up.(or used lemons in general since its not used much in korean food) Although now anytime something doesnt seem to work one of us will ask if it has "decorative holes."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im having trouble picturing this. What kind of lemon squeezer is this and how can you put a lemon in backward?

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#46

Not extreme, but TWO of our graphic design juniors using caps lock for a single capital letter. I had never seen anyone do this and they both joined within a space of a month. Will never understand how or why they can work like that

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i notice that very often here at the office where i work, it seems to me that those people find easy to fast press caps lock t wo times instead of holding shift.

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#48

I got on a bus and a woman was eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's with a pair of safety scissors.

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#49

About 9 years ago a co-worker hammered a paint tin lid back on with the handle of my torque wrench, still mad at that guy.

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#50

Several years ago I worked for natural nail salon as a receptionist. One of my duties was to sweep the floors regularly so clients don't step on nail clippings on their way in/out.

There was a new hire, and my manager was never really around to train her. The other receptionists and I trained her. One day, I asked her to sweep the floors. I showed her where the broom and dust pan was. She was in her early 20s and living on her own - I assumed I didn't have to teach her how to use a broom.

She took the broom, and fanned the nail clippings into the dust pan. She didn't drag the broom across the floor to sweep it - the broom never touched the floor. I tried to show her how to sweep properly. She never took my advice, and I kind of gave up.

She left after six months. She still couldn't sweep, but she could finally calculate tips at least.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is fine line between can´t and playing dumb because you do want to

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#51

A fridge being used as a clothes cupboard

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#52

We had microwaves, but no stove in our dorms. One of my floormates ended up putting ramen + seasoning in a Gatorade bottle and then microwaving that

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#53

I once had a roommate who didn't know how to sweep or mop. I thought he was f**king with me. Nope. He straight up did not know how brooms and mops work. Watching him try to clean was like watching a monkey try to f**k a football.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like a monkey would actually be fairly successful at such a task...

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#54

My (adult!!!) BIL once used steel wool to scrub his parents' oak dining table. That still floors me after like a decade...

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#55

I had an extreme itch in my ear and no q-tip. The closest small object that would fit in my ear was a screwdriver, so I used it. I ended up cutting my eardrum and had to go to the doctor. I can’t say I regret it though, it was satisfying to finally get rid of the itch.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Satisfying to get rid of the itch, but you did enough damage to require medical care.... How satisfying was that pain?

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#56

Heating underpants in the microwave on a cold morning

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well...yeah...I do the opposite - when it is too hot outside - so before going to sleep, I take my pyjamas, put them in plastic bag and then put them into freezer for some time...and it works like a miracle...

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#57

I used to work at a golf course doing lawn maintenance. We had a fella on our crew that was older and well, not the brightest. He was kind of a loner so we just let him be most of the time. One day, I saw our guy mowing some large berms with one of our push mowers. To save time, I guess, he left the mower running; then picked it up to put in the back of the truck. He still had all his fingers but the truck tailgate took a good hit.

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#58

My grandma smoked in her bedroom and used a bunch of decorative vases as her ashtrays. We never went into her bedroom so we never found out until after she passed away. It was an absurd amount of vases in all different sizes.

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#59

Bought a can of butane gas and only looked more closely when I got it home and saw that someone had used it as a hammer. The underside was covered in little dents, like it had been used to hammer in a nail or something.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"These blockbuster bombs don't go off unless you hit them JUUUUUUUST right."

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#60

My sister used my tampons to make tiny ghosts for her barbie Halloween party.

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#61

My mom used the handle end of a spoon today instead of a knife to spread some mayonnaise. The spoon was clean and not used for any spoon-like activities either. There were other knives to use..

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this too, but I use the same spoon I used to scoop the mayo out in the first place.

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#62

I've seen my grandma open a scissor all the way and use it to carve stuff like a knife.

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#63

An old roommate put a strainer inside of a pot of boiling water and flipped both. Boiling went all over the place, but she said "that's the right way to do it, I seen on Instagram "

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#64

I sometimes use shampoo as body wash

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also do, but I'm an exceptionally hairy man so it can't be all that wrong.

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#65

I used to have a manager who would always use a pen off his desk to stir his money coffee. And he would use whatever kind of candy was in the department to add sugar to his afternoon tea.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh, for some reason I thought coffee drinkers and tea drinkers were mutually exclusive. No clue why I thought that.

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#66

My roommate once poured hummus into a pot of marinara sauce.

He's also mixed together a bunch of different types of barbeque sauce and left them out for days. Then he ate it and tried to get the rest of us to eat it.

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#67

My uncle had never used a Keurig before, and it seemed to him one would remove the top of that little k-cup so’s the hot water could get to the coffee...surprisingly big mess!

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#68

My landlord uses the same rag to wipe off the counters, in and around the sink, etc, that he uses to dry the dishes.

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LuckyL
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

depends on the order that you do this in, how clean your kitchen is and how often you change the towls I would say ----- Had a colleague use the kitchen towl to wipe water from the floor - needed to tell him, to never do this ever again

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I travel all the time for work. In my travels I bought myself some really nice travelpro suitcases ($300+ ea). My parents don’t travel so much and have old luggage that’s just falling apart. I changed up my main travel bag for something more practical and brought one of my travelpro bags to my parents. I told them “hey use this when you go somewhere”. My dad works in the electrical business, the first thing he asked me is if he can load the bag up with extension cords and take it on job sites. My mom tells me she had to stop him from doing this a few times. I eventually took the bag back home with me.

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Suzanne Harris
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't see anything wrong with this. You gave it to them, don't dictate what they can do with it. You even said they don't travel much, so he's probably trying to get your money's worth out of it.

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#70

This guy frank uses a knife to cut hit toenails. He calls it his toe knife. When he frequently botches the job he then used socks or trash basically whatever is around to stop the bleeding when there is not a glove available, he calls them cut gloves. Really weird dude.

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#71

Using anything that isn’t floss to get that annoying bit of food out of your teeth.

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#72

Tea towels are for drying clean dishes, not for mopping up the pasta sauce you spilled on the counter.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you're poor and have one rag that does everything. Just make sure to wash it well after every use.

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Coworker decided to boil her sausages (her lunch) in the office's electric kettle, therefore causing it to overflow, to leak on the electrical outlet and to cause a blackout for our whole entire floor (150 people). Not to mention the murder / baptism (?) of our brand new carpet.

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John Holmes
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe it, unless there is something terribly wrong with the electrical installation. A leak on a single outlet could cause a blackout in a small area, but THE ENTIRE FLOOR? No way, Jose.

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#74

My Grandmother in Law has been staying with me and my partner this past week. I love her but OH MY GOSH.

The toilet rolls are the wrong way round.

All the chopping knives end up in the drawer instead of the very obvious knife block.

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#75

Using the moisturiser to water the plants

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