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 Wonāt Name Names But Looks Like Someone Ate Their Momās 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.”
The Coffee Maker That Saved My Life A Week Ago
Almost Died This Morning On The Highway. Bounced From The Left Lane Up In The Air And Impaled My Windshield
I'm Not A Big Fan Of Ballet. But My Wife Said It Would Be An Unforgettable Experience. It Was
“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 Restaurantās 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 Valentineās Day Said āI Love Youā 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
Thatās Definitely What An Alpha Male Would Do
Iām 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 -45Ā°C Tonight. Woke Up To Frost In The Corner Of My Bedroom
My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweaterā¦ Is This The Lewk?
You still let your mum do your washing?? Maybe she's trying to tell you something.
To be fair he might be visiting, or they might have chore schedules. My mum does all my washing with the rest of the family's and in return I do the vacuuming. Let's please not shame people for not following the normal "adult" routines, the world does a good enough job of making us feel worthless already.
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Reminds me of my mother washing my brother and his girlfriend's identical sweaters. She picked hers out of the wash thinking she had shrunk it so she spent an hour stretching it and ironing it to save it, only to discover it was a small woman's size to begin with and my brother's was still, unshrunk, in the wash.
You can fix it. There is a product out there that let's the fibers relax and can be re shaped
I've heard that soaking it in lukewarm water and shampoo/soap can also work.
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THAT was your favorite sweater?? Mom did you a favor Honey. She wants grandchildren someday.
Aren't you a little old for your mom to be washing your sweaters???
When I was 18 I bought a cashmere sweater on sale. Carefully cleaned each week for about 6 months or so. I came home from work one day my mom casually mentioned she washed my sweater in the regular wash in hot water. It fit my four year old sister. It cost me a lot of money at the time and no she never compensated or a sorry.
Do your own laundry and take your Mom out to dinner and thank her .
You know if you use a garment steamer, you can bring it back to size. At least it has worked for me.
Why is your mother doing your laundry at your age? If you did it yourself, you wouldnāt be on Bored Panda.
My mom would do this when she visited. She would grab all the laundry and wash it thinking she was being helpful. And she even did the bag marked dry cleaning only. I constantly had to buy new clothes for work.
You look a little old to be living with your Mom and having her do your laundry. I think if you ponder on it, you'll come up with the solution all by yourself.
If it's wool it's still saveable, get it thoroughly soaked and tease it out to the original size. Google instructions on how to do so, and good luck.
if it were a man's sweater in the first place, the arms would have shrunk in length too
Sometimes there's no stopping someone from washing your clothes. I have to practically hide my laundry from my husband. He won't stop washing my stuff!!
I was visiting a German family and my friend and I went to town. When we got back all of our clothes were missing. Oma had done our laundry and hung them outside to dry. She was in her 90's. Such a sweetie.
I don't think that your mother liked that sweater or she is suggesting you do your own damn laundry.
Soak it, hang it up and it'll stretch back out. Then learn how to do your own washing like a grown adult
Jfc everyone is hating on this guy with no context. Maybe he was visiting and she did his laundry to be nice. Maybe she was doing laundry and gathered up some of his things to make a full load. Maybe they have a chore schedule so she does the laundry and he takes care of the outside. Maybe heās one of those guys who got puberty super hard and is actually 15.
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WTH is a guy that age making his mom do his laundry? He deserves this!
If you start a statement with "My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweater" and you are not under the age of 12, you deserve this.
You look plenty old enough to be doing your own laundry. If I was your age and my mom was still doing my laundry I would not be posting it.
Itās 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 āRose Apothecaryā Sweater From Etsy For My FiancĆ©. This Came Instead. Weāre 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 Parentsā 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 Wentā¦ 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 Someoneās Not Eating Solids Today
It Seems Iām The Only One Who Commuted Into The Office Today. Maybe Thereās A Memo Out There I Didnāt 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 !
When Your Tire Goes Bazooka
even tyres get pimples, wash it regularly and apply cream it should go down in a couple of days
The Mirror In My Hotel Bathroom Has An Antifog Section. Unfortunately, I'm 5'2"
I Guess Somebody At My Apartment Complex Got Caught Cheating
If Only The Ice Was As Thick As Their Skull
Had Two Stray Bullets Hit My House Just After Midnight On New Years. Through A Shower And Garage
How to tell me you live in the USA without telling me you live in the USA.
Locked My Door And Ran Outside My Appartment In A Hurry, Keys Got Caught Inside
My Parents (Late 70s) Got Me A PS5 Controller For Christmas. I Do Not Own A Playstation 5
My Hand In Scrabble Right Now
No, the really ugly part is that they're all worth only one point each.
This Is What Happens When You Leave A Case Of Pop In The Truck Of Your Car When The Overnight Temperature Is -32Ā°C
My Friend Just Got A Tattoo. She Says That's How Judgment Used To Be Written Before And It's Still Written Like This In British English, But I Have My Doubts
English is not our native language.
Note To Self: Donāt Continue To Refer To Paw Patrol As āPoo Patrolā After Itās Clear That Your Toddler Has Become Enraged By The Joke
How does the screen breakage line up so well with the window? frame? behind it? Itās art now.
Saved For Months Because Unemployed, Ordered In September, FedEx Refused To Deliver Because We Were Cut Off Due To Landslides And Floods, Came Yesterday At The Post Office
Motherboard is snapped, shoe print on the box... Canada Post and FedEx say it's not their fault. One sad child. Sorry. Merry Christmas
Just So You Know, A 10 Foot Pipe Does Not Fit In A Toyota Rav4
"I'll Do The Dishes Tomorrow"
First Day Back To College And The Hot Chocolate Machine Had Ants Inside It
Got This In My Fortune Cookie
Honest fortune cookie š. I would be delighted to get this.
When Your Christmas Tree Just Canāt Make It Until Christmas
Forgot My Plastic Spatula In The Oven While Heating Up My Lasagna
My Car Doesn't Start When It's Below -30F, It's Been That Cold For Days, And I Don't Have Running Water. I'm Finally Getting Desperate Enough To Melt Snow For A Bath
Christmas Lunch Ruined For A Few Extra $ On Weigh-In
If that was deliberately added to increase the weight, the NIST Weights and Measures Division will shut them down pronto. You don't want to piss off Weights and Measures.
Sudden Red Rash After Drinking Cheap Alcohol
Was Woodworking A Ring And Checked The Size. Now It Isn't Coming Off
My House Got Hit By A Landslide
Hosted A 2-Day NYE Get Together At $800 Airbnb, And No One Came
Canceled My Holidays Due To Covid And Every Plan Falling Apart
Decided to prepare myself some nice Christmas dinner at home by myself. Dropped the good knife while doing the dishes. Never seen a knife like that
Everything I Worked So Hard Is All Gone In A Matter Of One Night, That's My Personal Vehicle, And My Work Van Behind It. All Tools & Everything Gone. I Can't Stop Crying
I'm only guessing that you don't have insurance, or that insurance for this kind of thing (isn't it called theft?) doesn't exist. My heart goes out to you, my friend. You did a stupid thing but the perpetrators did an evil thing. You're still ahead of them.
Heard A Loud Crash While Eating Lunch
Just Bought A Zelda Game & Watch And Put It In My Back Pocket
This Probably Only Sucks For Me Because I Have To Look At It Everyday But These People Thought Painting The Top Of An Old Twistee Treat Roof Brown Was A Good Idea
Itās -35 Today Here In Canada. I Needed Warm Winter Boots. What I Ordered vs. What I Got
Housemate's Dog Got Into My 6-Hour Butter Chicken. No Dinner For Me Tonight
Walked Out My Door To See This. Guess I Wonāt Be Driving To Work Today
New Antibacterial Wipes From The Store Have Mold Growing In Them
Insurance Loves Spending A Penny To Save A Dollar. Wonāt Total. We Have To Clean This Up And Install In A Jeep
Instead Of My Christmas Gift, Amazon Delivered Me An Industrial Supply Of Single-Ply Toilet Paper
Randomly Fainted And Fell Face First Onto A Concrete Floor. Merry Christmas
Just Used A Bath Bomb I Got For Christmas And Now The Bath Looks Like That
Ate A Huge Bag Of "Members Mark" Trail Mix For About 1 Month. Got To The Bottom And Found 3 Rusty Screws
Hereās How My Day Went
Happy New Year? 10 Minutes After Midnight A Loud Metallic Bounce Came Off The Floor
Windchill Is -21 & Kids Just Egged Our House. Froze Instantly
Iām A Mechanic, Been Waiting All Month For It And I Missed It
Splurged On A Jar Of Fancy Honey And Dropped It While Taking The Cap Off
Local Wendy's Burnt Down At The Start Of The Pandemic. So I've Been Waiting Until Now For That Spicy Chicken. First Burger Of The New Restaurant - Three Bites In And It's Totally Raw
I Live In A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Trekked For 1,5 Hours Uphill To Get The Perfect Sunset Photo - Left My Memory Card At Home
I Am A Menace To Society. My Dumb Pregnancy Brain Accidentally Ordered My Husband A Burrito With No Tortilla
Merry Christmas Everyone. Yayyy
I Slept Wrong Last Night. Can't Use My Hand Now. Yay
Found My Car On Milk Crates This Morning. Had Lock Nuts On It Too
Do you live in 1990's Manchester? That used to happen all the bloody time. Along with stealing your car stereo.
Sold My iPad In Public Space At Night In Minnesotan -10F Temperature, Turned Out It's Fake
Always meet at a police station. Most scammers will avoid going there. Also, buy a pen that checks for counterfeits
Asked A Guy To Take A Nice Photo Of Me And My Girlfriend. Our Reply: "Great, Thank You". As You Do
Never Heard It Happen
That electrical cord is holding on like Thor holding open the forge in endgame
Not So Merry Christmas
Me: "Yay Off To A Tropical Country To Enjoy Summer!" Weather: No
Hit This Absolutely Massive Pothole And Got 2 Flat Tires And 2 Dented Rims On Our Brand New Tesla Model Plaid
When Your Dad Tells You To Cover The Oak Before It Rains, So You Tell Your Younger Brother To Cover The Oak Before It Rains. Pop Comes Home In 20 Minutes
Just Finished A Brand New Out Of The Box 500-Piece Puzzle
When You Fancy A Nice Cold Beer After A Tough Day
I hope someone learned something about the behavior of liquids in a freezer
Overfilled My Jars To Freeze The Bone Broth I Spent 48 Hours Simmering
Ordered An Apple Watch For My Sister For Christmas
Somewhere between being shipped and being delivered to her someone opened the package, took the watch and strap, then sealed the whole thing back up
Visitor Illegally Parked In My Private/Assigned Spot At My Apt For Half The Night. Lot Was Full So I Had To Park Half A Mile Away And Walk
Crumpled and tossed the polite note I left.
Took A Late Lunch To Find I Forgot To Put PB Or J On My PB&J
I Didnāt Order These Groceries
Went To Clean My Glasses And This Happened
Was driving home from work one night...in the dark...on the freeway...during rush hour...and the lens fell out of my glasses frame. I am EXTREMELY nearsighted.
Apparently 2 Hours Early Wasnāt Early Enough
My Sister-In-Law Thought She Bought A Confetti Cannon To Prank Me
My Aunt āAdoptedā An Elephant For Me As A Christmas Present And Her Last Known Location Was Recorded In August. I Can Only Imagine What Happened
Ordered Pizzas From A New Restaurant With Absolutely Zero Ratings And Got Them Like This
Two Days Into My New Lease And I Wake Up To My Fire Alarm And My Electric Razor On Fire
I Got Asked Out To See The New Spider Man Movie And She Didn't Show Up
It Was Raining Really Bad
Having My Bathroom Remodelled And They Installed My Shower At Less Than Knee Height
How did it get this far without anyone noticing? The shower head goes in well before the tiling.
The Good News, I Narrowly Avoided A House Fire Today. The Bad News, All Of The Outlets In My Basement Are Dead Now
At A Parking Lot. These Cars Are All Parked In EV Charging Spots, Despite The Fact That None Of These Are Electric Vehicle
Not Only Am I Spending Holidays Alone Because My Closest Family Live In A Different State, My Boyfriend And I Broke Up. Then I Managed To Burn This Pizza
Brand New E-Skate Stolen Last Night Out Of My New Car. Just As I Got An Air Tag That I Was Planning To Insert This Weekend. Too Late Now
Just Bought A House. Was Told There Was Hardwood Under All The Carpet. Tested A Discreet Corner In The Closet, Which Did Have Hardwood Beneath. But Not The Living Room
Looks like I’ll be spending too much money on new flooring now.
You have cause for legal action if they told you there was wood flooring under the carpet, at least in the US. Real estate laws state that sellers don't have to volunteer information, but must answer truthfully if asked. They lied. Sue for the cost of the flooring and installation.
Took Off My Beanie And Airpod To Set Them On The Table When I Got Home From Work. Did Not Notice The Candle Underneath
Getting Married In Four Days And My FiancƩ And I Wanted To Write Nice Letters To Our Loved Ones On The Day. This Is What Came In The Mail
It's missing a picture from the reddit thread : the back of the card is not blank, as it should be.
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.
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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!!!!!
