50 Times People Experienced The Most Unfortunate Fails And Just Had To Take A Photo (New Pics)
From time to time, everyone has days when nothing goes right. Some mornings, you just wake up with a throbbing headache. Or maybe your car won’t start, making you late for work. Or perhaps you accidentally ripped out your eyelashes an hour before your wedding. It’s easy to feel like nothing is going your way and the whole world is against you.
Luckily, there’s one powerful antidote that can instantly increase your mood and help you forget your everyday troubles. It’s the comforting feeling of knowing that someone out there is having an even more dreadful day than you are.
Just take a look at this list compiled by Bored Panda and realize how much worse things can get. Scroll down to check out the pics and feel free to share your own funny accidents in the comments below! And if you need an extra dose of others’ mishaps, be sure to read through our previous posts here, here, and here.
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Hi, I'm Calling To Start A Claim -My Car Is Flooded. Oh, I Don't Have Flood Coverage? In That Case, It's On Fire
When It's Your Stop And The Doors Open To This
If you grab hold of the rings and swing hard enough, maybe you can catapult onto the top of the snow to get out.
Awful
No one is immune to experiencing misfortune. It’s bizarre how some minor unlucky accidents can ruin our whole day. Whether it’s the little things that go wrong the second you step out of bed or some inconsiderate remarks that send you into a downward spiral, sometimes we go from blissfully happy to plain miserable in mere seconds.
It’s easy to start feeling irritated and full of self-pity. When you find out that such random things can become an immediate day-breaker, you might start feeling grumpy and even bring the people that surround you down, too. It turns out, bad stuff tends to stick because we are more likely to dwell on the things that went wrong.
We keep letting pessimistic thoughts in because of the negativity bias—our tendency to give more significance to the negative experiences than positive or neutral ones. Rick Hanson, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, explained that humans evolved to be fearful.
Oh No
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!no no no no !!!!!!!!sssshhhhhhiiiiiiiiii*****!!!
Guess What Kind Of Animal Nonchalantly Pushed My Mug From The Table
I Won’t Name Names But Looks Like Someone Ate Their Mom’s Lipstick
“The nervous system has been evolving for 600 million years, from ancient jellyfish to modern humans. Our ancestors had to make a critical decision many times a day: approach a reward or avoid a hazard,” he wrote.
People needed to find food, have children, and cooperate with others to help them have children of their own. Also, they had to hide from predators in order to survive and avoid potential dangers.
While both of them are important, there’s a key difference. If you miss out on food one day, you’ll have a shot to find more the next. But if you fail to avoid a hazard—there are no more chances for you to pass your genes to the next generation. That’s why we generally react “more intensely to negative stimuli than to equally strong positive ones.”
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“The alarm bell of your brain—the amygdala (you’ve got two of these little almond-shaped regions, one on either side of your head)—uses many of its neurons to look for bad news: it’s primed to go negative in most people,” Hanson continued.
“Once it sounds the alarm, negative events and experiences get quickly stored in memory—in contrast to positive events and experiences, which are not prioritized in the same way.”
I Accidentally Ripped Out My Eyelashes An Hour Before I Got Married
Can You All Confirm For My Wife I'm Not Dumb And It Could Have Happened To Anyone?
Someone Flying Out Of DFW Is Going To Have A Rough Time In A Few Hours
While this is great for passing on our genes, it makes it hard to lead a healthy and fulfilling life. Understanding our tendency to focus on the negativities should help us to recognize that things are usually not as bad as we think. Of course, it’s important to share and discuss the problems we face in our everyday lives. But it’s also necessary to balance it out with the good stuff and remember to share a laugh or two.
I Passed Out In The Parking Lot Of The Emergency Room, And They Sent An Ambulance To Take Me 15 Feet
Wife And I Saved For Years To Build Our Dream Cabin In The Woods. Less That Two Years Later An Abandoned House Across The Road Decided To Open Up A Tobacco Store
They light themselves up like the Beacons of Gondor.
Bought These Binoculars Specifically To Go To The Grand Canyon Today
Psychological resilience could be the key to dealing with negativity. “Although there has been a debate whether resilience, mental and emotional, is innate or something that can be developed, for me, it’s an innate condition that all humans have but needs to be developed and modeled well for it to come to the surface,” Vasia Toxavidi, a counselor and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), told Bored Panda in a previous interview.
“All humans are wired for survival, so resilience must be an innate trait for everyone for this to happen, but if it’s never developed, then it may not come out as a trait for someone.”
Received This Today. Kinda Resembles My Mental State
This Is My View From The Bathroom Floor, Looking At The Hole In The Ceiling I Just Fell Through
When You Find Out The Hard Way That The Italian Restaurant’s Hand Sanitizer Looks Exactly Like Olive Oil
She added: “Resilience is the skill of adaptation, which for me is another innate skill of humans compared to other animals. Humans can adapt to situations easier. Having counseling or psychotherapy is an example of how resilience can be developed and learned and become a new way of living.”
Humor can be a helpful resilience strategy. Studies have shown that it can “decrease levels of stress hormones such as cortisol and increase the activation of the pleasure hormone, dopamine.” Plus, “just smiling without even finding anything funny can make the brain believe that you are happy.” So it seems that laughing can help us reconsider problems that we would otherwise interpret as “overwhelming and damaging.”
This Week Started With A Break Up, Then I Had To Get My Car Towed, Now I Spilled Spaghetti In My Shoe
The Ice Cream Cake I Ordered For Valentine’s Day Said “I Love You” But Some Of The Letters Fell Off During Transit
Dropped My Cologne In My Sink
“Another important key to resilience is to be part of a community and have external support from family, friends and others. As humans, we’re social animals so without having a strong sense of belonging, we cannot thrive or be resilient,” Vasia Toxavidi concluded.
A Machine Came Thru My Local John Deere For Repairs From The Tornado In Kentucky
Toast It Is
That’s Definitely What An Alpha Male Would Do
I’m Just Trying To Refund Two Tickets
Can You Guess Which Month A Pipe Burst Under My House?
I Live In Central Alberta, It Got Down To Roughly -45°C Tonight. Woke Up To Frost In The Corner Of My Bedroom
My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweater… Is This The Lewk?
It’s Been So Cold, I Snapped My Welcome Mat
Guy Parks On The Stripes Thinking He Can Avoid The Freezing Rain Only To Be Under A Leaky Pipe
Ordered A “Rose Apothecary” Sweater From Etsy For My Fiancé. This Came Instead. We’re Both Double Vaxxed And Healthcare Workers
Lost Both Legs In April, Yesterday I Flipped My Wheelchair Off A Sidewalk For The First Time
I Was Billed Over $2M For A Week In The Hospital
Came Home After A Long Shift, Went To Get Some Food, A Mouse Was In It
A Student In My Class Tried Using 4 Devices To Cheat On A Quiz, But Somehow Managed To Get The Wrong Answer On All Of Them
When The Stylist Says "I'm Having A Tough Time With Your Hair Line"
Since Christmas I Been Wearing These Noticing How The Right Ear Sounds Lower Than The Left One But Just Brushing It Off
My Girlfriend Found A Band-Aid In Her Food... Well, In Her Mouth Really
Friend's Dad Made Some Cayenne Rolls From Scratch Tonight. He Thought He Was Using Cinnamon. The Rolls Had No Cinnamon
The View From My Apartment When I Moved In vs. Now
My Shopping Bag Broke At The Top Of The Stairs And The Lettuce Made A Run For It
Joke's On You, Most Pics In That Card Are Yours
FedEx In Alabama Strikes Again. This Time In Jemison, All 20 Packages Were Found In The Woods
I Had To Take In One Of Parents’ Dogs For A Couple Of Days. My Wife Only Put One Of The Cats Away Before I Got Home With The Dog. I Had To Put Away The Second Cat. It Went… Well
His wife did all that to him to make him put the cat away? I hope he went for a shot.
Not My Teeth But Someone’s Not Eating Solids Today
It Seems I’m The Only One Who Commuted Into The Office Today. Maybe There’s A Memo Out There I Didn’t Receive
I Told My Husband Cutting His Own Hair Is A Bad Idea, This Happened
$80 Christmas Gift Applied Directly To My Driveway
I'm Visually Impaired. I Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Wireless Charger And A Mug Heater
Today I Screwed Up
How can you not realise the box is going to be to big for the car... A miscalculation of a few centimeters/inches, ok. But it's taller than the car !
I'm trying to think of a reason that isn't "they are an idiot". And the best I can come with is - "they own this little car, and a truck, and forgot that they drove the car today"
Load More Replies...If they tied it to the roof the car would get airborne.
Load More Replies...Yeah, just use the deilvery service. This is IKEA Haarlem, The Netherlands. Dutch IKEA deliveries can follow you home. You can have it delivered within an hour if you want to and it doesn't cost that much. And what Saint Thomas said. You're driving the tiniest of cars, how did someone imagine a mattress that size will ever fit...
Believe it or not, I saw a second picture where they rolled it up and got it in the car!
I saw it too and they had room to spare. Thank heaven for foldable foam.
Load More Replies...Been there, done that. I bought a bookcase. Measured every bit of it and decided it would go in the car albeit out of the box. Forgot about the back panel which turned out to be a single piece. Finished up with it pushed up into the headlining of the car, partly resting on my head. Fortunately it wasn't very far and it was very light as it was little more than cardboard.
I worked at a Walmart for a time in the electronics department. You wouldn't believe how many people did this but with TVs.
This has to be a joke setup. The mattress is going to the truck (out of frame). Nobody is that stupid... although the "shoelaces and a hoodie drawstring" thing does ring a bell of something I have seen.
Watched a guy go down the road with a 12 ft carpet roll on a jeep almost fell off as it went sideways from wind drag
And this is when you roll it back into the store and make arrangements to have it delivered.
Hey Fella DON"T BULSHIT or worse still show that you are a DUMMY. We bought our MATTRESS from IKEA rolled up into a small bundle. Fits easily in your car. When you cut the thick plastic wrapping at Home the Mattress SWELLS to its regular King or Queen size.
You should've bought an inflatable mattress; buy now in a small box, inflate on site.
That's when bungie cords come in handy. You may look like the Beverly Hillbillies, but it works in a pinch.
WHAT ?? Did you think you were buying a cushion ?? Or changed your mind ?
I would be tying that mattress to the car roof and heading out--slowly of course....
Why didn't you tie it to the roof? Except for maybe flying into the air, you'd be OK
They never learned how to put square pegs in round holes in primary school
Hey, let’s take a photo of the mattress near a different car so we can go viral
Take it out of the box & put the individual pieces in your car. Assemble it when you get home. I did that with my Mustang GT Convertible.
And how many clowns climbed out of that car to help you load that mattress in?
Once saw some one come out of a supermarket with a massive TV, go up to a smallish car. Then try to get the box in the back seat. Just when I thought the entertainment was over. They took the TV out of the box, and it did slide in. But they seemed to think that they needed to put the box in too. Unfolded, exactly the same size that wouldn't fit with the TV in. 20 mins later. The guy threw it on top of the trolly park, got in the car and drove away.
I'm thinking what kind of syndrome can lead to such a miscalculation
This is an everyday occurrence in Texas, just pop it onto the roof and have the passenger hold onto it lolol.
I once had a customer buy a huge fridge freezer and insisted he'd take it now, no delivery! I figured he must have a big car but knew it'd still be too small for this thing. Despite my offers he insisted to put it in his car but needed me to help. We (I) struggled pushing this thing on a trolley to his car. When I popped my head around I nearly fell over in shock. It was an old Ford Fiesta hatchback. The damn fridge was metaphorically as big as the damn car. But, he still insisted on spending 20 mins trying to get it in the car through the back door and on the back seats. When that didn't work he tried taking it out of the packaging. After 30-40mins of this I had to walk away. I returned later to see if he wanted to try having it delivered. He reluctantly decided he probably should. I then had to spend 20mins packing the thing up in about £50 of bubble wrap to make it safe for delivery
If it's any consolation, my Wife ordered an American style fridge freezer (side by side thingy), the first delivery guys looked at the door, measured it and without a word, put the fridge back on the truck and drove away, yup, she hadn't measured (it was about 6 inches wider than the door whichever way it was measured), same thing happened the second time but it was only 3 inches too wide. Following this I measured up, then got a tradesman to do the same, then I ordered the fridge .....
put it on the roof, open all the doors, tie down front -middle -back, then close the doors, go home. how is this hard to figure out?
Used to work for a major furniture store and I can't even count how many times we'd get a call next something wouldn't fit in their house in a single day.......
But you took if off from the box, folded in half, stuffed into your car, you solved the problem! Boy, you are marvellous!
I work at a Goodwill and I still remember the two guys who were driving s rented smart car and drove off holding onto the four wooden chairs they'd bought. They held them to the roof with their hands. One of them came back a couple of weeks later. He let me know they made it back to their place with all the chairs. (They didn't live very far away.) In this case tying it to the roof might work...
I used to work at a big box store this happened a lot more than you might think Once I had customer have me bring outa rather large air compressor only to find she came in a sedan. Took one look and said I think you need a pick up truck
Ikea sells casters. Buy 6 of them. Screw them into the mattress through the box, and then tow it behind the car. It'll be fine. Really.
You certainly did screw up. No way that car will be comfortable sleeping on that Queen Size mattress.
I'm sure this is just a funny picture they snapped and the friends pick-up is out of the shot.
There is a way to solve this: Put some foam (or cardboard folded into a triangle tube) on front and back of car. Place mattress on top. Run rope or straps through car (one each horizontally through front and back while doors open. tighten, then close doors. Tie rope or attach straps to the two hooks each on underside of front of car (most cars have these), then attach to the front horizontals. Do same again for back. Retighten everything. Drive slowly on side roads.
Simple solution: buy a bigger car. Then refurbish the new car, and sell it for a tidy profit. Then use that money to pay for an education in physics.
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A lot of these make the U.S. look like the sort of place I'd be very, very keen to leave.
America has its problems but it's far from a shithole. Every country has issues, the whole world has issues, and we need to work together to try to solve them. Hatred will not end suffering.
Load More Replies...Omg this was hilarious! Brilliant comments and titles, well done author!!!!!
A lot of these make the U.S. look like the sort of place I'd be very, very keen to leave.
America has its problems but it's far from a shithole. Every country has issues, the whole world has issues, and we need to work together to try to solve them. Hatred will not end suffering.
Load More Replies...Omg this was hilarious! Brilliant comments and titles, well done author!!!!!