That lovely German word 'schadenfreude' describes the pleasure that one gets in witnessing another person's misfortune. While we don't necessarily condone this slightly evil feeling, it can be useful in putting one's own struggles and unfortunate events into perspective.
For example, you're not having a good time of things. You didn't get much sleep, the car won't start, and you're late for work. Seems like you're having the worst day ever! It's easy to feel grumpy and full of self-pity; you might even bring the people around you down as well, with your crappy mood.
However, one look at this list, compiled by Bored Panda, will immediately make you realize how much worse things can be. These people are having a really bad day, and it's sure to be worse than yours. Does that make things better? Yes. Should it really? Probably not. But somehow it does, so who are we to argue?
Scroll down below for your daily dose of schadenfreude, whether you need it or not, and feel free to tell us about your own funny accidents in the comments!
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Keys Inside Armored Truck
Today I Learned That I Sleepwalk
Two Brothers Won The Lottery On The Same Day
Oh Well
Probably The Greatest Picture Of Myself That’s Ever Been Taken
Just Married Couple In Front Of Their Burning Car
At least they're okay, and seem to have good sense of humor about the whole thing. It'll make an interesting story to tell the kids years later.(if they choose to have any)
Poor Guy
Well That Sucks
Sucks To Be You, Tom
Spent $11.75 Growing Tomatoes This Year. Here's My Whole Harvest
Scene Outside My Apartment Today
This Girl Was Bleaching Her Hair And Put A Plastic Bag From Walmart Over It To Help The Heat Stay In And It Printed The Ink Onto Her Hair
Not Dead
I Give Up
Their phone is devoutly religious and could no longer allow such behavior.
Lanyard Caught On The Handle And My Keys Swung Inside The Door As I Closed It. Stupidest Way To Lock Yourself Out?
So I Started Work As A Beekeeper Last Week
Control + V
Well, I Guess I'm The Chandelier Now
Someone At Porsche Is Getting Fired Today
It's A Me A-Marioooo ...oh
Rude Awakening
Jonah Hill Dropping His Coffee
I Received This Gift From My Crush
Still Better Than a DUI
The Moment You Realize You Used The Wrong Spray
And realised you now have a perfect reason to turn the boring lawn into an amazing flowerbed.
When You Ignore The Foul Taste Of Morning Tea
Got A New Printer. The Old One Didn’t Go Out Without A Fight
Apparently The Kids Were Too Distracted To Shut The Door
Picked My Car Up From The Mechanic Yesterday After Having A Bunch Of Things Replaced Totalling $2100 Just To Have Burst Into Flames On Me This Morning. I'm Too Poor For This S**t
Looks Like I’m Not Getting My Bluetooth Earbuds Back For A While
Imagine Getting Your Name Excluded Like This In A Movie Credit Scene
When You Forget Your Friends
Chinese Man Chops Off His Own Finger After A Snake Bite ‘To Save My Own Life’, But Doctors Say It Was Totally Unnecessary
Took Mac And Cheese To A Different Level
Home Alone Cleaning The Roof And Gutters When I Heard A Loud Bang
A Statue Of Jesus In India Mysteriously Began Dripping Water From Its Toes. Worshippers Started Collecting It And Drinking It Believing It Was Holy. The Source Of The Water Was Later Found To Be Clogged Pipes
Awkward
My Blind Friend Got Engaged Yesterday. He’s Pretty Sure
Funny
Well, There Goes Our Rice Stock For Several Weeks
A Truck Carrying A Tank Of White Paint Dropped It On The Road
I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans. By Hand
I'm wondering how he ended up as boss of that place if he's doing stuff like that.
Found Out On The Way Home From Getting Our New Puppy That She Gets Car Sick. We Had An Hour Left To Drive
Another reason, besides safety for the dog ..... to securely crate your pet in a moving vehicle.
I Dislocated My Jaw. While Eating Cereal
Our Company Now Has 900 Of These Pens
Throwback To The Time I Signed A "Funny" Signature, And Then The Computer Froze
And I had to explain to the three employees that came to help that no, my name isn't poop mouth and no, I don't know why I wrote that, and please just take my money so I can go home and die.
Work Day Gone Wrong
Seriously, if you don't provide that kind of information you have no-one to blame but yourself. The overwhelming majority of celebrated birthdays are for alive people, if you deviate from that norm it's on you to point that out.
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Embarrassing but they should have told you that at the beginning. Totally not your fault.
Oh dear--at least you made the effort. This was like the time a late-night talk show host asked the comedian guest how his wife was, and he told him she had died a few weeks ago. The hot was crushed, and they had to go to commercial.
Fighting An Ant Infestation In My Kitchen The Last Couple Days. Didn't Think To Check My Cereal Box. Realized The Small Brown Things Are Ants 6-8 Bites In
Happy I Booked The Window Seat
My Pen Exploded In My Mouth. I Have A Senior Speech For Marching Band Today
My Friend Found A Dead Bird In Her Shoes This Morning
When Your One Piece Sink/Counter Randomly Explodes At 3 Am
Looks Like I Won't Be Listening To My New Vinyl Record. Thanks, USPS
I Made A Lasagna For Lunch. Here's The Result
My Morning Coffee Had Extra Aroma Today
The Dutch Police Isn't Immune To Stupid Mistakes Either
My Mom Accidentally Left Her Mirror In Front Of The Window Over The Day. After Coming Back She Found This
My Friend Asked Me To Take A Picture Of Him Standing On This Platform
Rain Update : I Woke Up To The Sight Of My Clothes, Shoes, Refrigerator And Washing Machine Floating
300 Eggs Down Ten Minutes Before The End Of My Shift. Eggscelent
I'm Leaving My Job After 5 Years Today, Over 500 People I Work With, This Is My Leaving Card
Doesn't mean a thing in a large company. You can sit at your desk and die and only when you begin to stink people start noticing you.
Dropped A Glass In The Sink And Thought I Lucked Out When It Didn’t Shatter
So The Jehovahs Witness’ At My GFS Mom’s Friend’s Forgot To Put The Parking Brake On
Taxes
Where I'm from you can bring that to a bank (or the national bank?) to have it replaced. It's probably standard practice in most places.
Played At Topgolf For The First Time Yesterday. This Is What I Found When I Got To My Car
Tried Cooking A Sweet Potato In My New Air Fryer Today
I Went Outside With My Shorts Inside Out
A package I had been waiting for was delivered to the post office, I jumped out of bed, put some shoes on and I went to the post office, there were some folks in there and I talked to a few. I got home and I started to cook myself food, and I noticed my shorts had been inside out the entire time.
Wcgw If My Neighbour Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There?
"I Dunno Mum. It Came With The Frame"
Woman Wins $42,949,672.76 On A Slot Machine, But Casino Doesn't Pay Out Claiming It's A Glitch (It's An Integer Overflow)
Paris CDG Airport. The luggage is in the middle of the road. Someone Will Have A Bad Day
Nice
Serves them right for having paint in the front seat of their car.
Cement Truck
For F***'s Sake
It Was A Bit Windy In Downtown Yesterday
Someone Cut Me Up While Transporting Chilli For My Sister-In-Law's Birthday Dinner
So, My Bottle Hair Dye Just Exploded
What Could Possibly Go Wrong If I Drain A Deep Fryer Into A Plastic Bucket?
Remember To Close Your Door Before Using An Automated Parking System
Oh No
This is when you give the machine a good whack, or call the maintenance person.
I’m Having A My-Kid-Puked-In-My-Prosthetic-Foot Day. You?
Sat Down To Enjoy A Nice Saturday Morning Cup Of Coffee
Broken Eyelash Curler Leads To A Very Sucky Morning
Excited To Start My New Job, Wanted To Make A Good Impression, Got There Early And Promptly Spilled Coffee All Over My Crotch
Finally Made A Good Lattice Crust Then I Went And Knocked My Cactus Onto It
This Is What Happens When Your Wife Wraps Meat The Same Way As Your Sandwiches For Work
While Drunk 13 Years Ago I Let Someone Take A Leather Punch To My Ear. Turns Out It's Impossible To Close Up Cartilage
Noooo
The Call Before You Dig Guy Said It Was Safe To Dig
The Red Line Is The Normal Way That's Currently Closed Due To Bushfire, The Blue Is The Next Fastest Sealed Road
When You Quickly Open Your Envelope Out Of Excitement
This Was My Dad's Boat On Our 2nd Time Out After Buying It. It Was Also On My Birthday
My Smoothie
Now What?
I Didn't Notice That My Glove Broke While Dying My Friend's Hair And Now My Hands Are Stained
My Poor Girlfriend Wakes Up To Her Laptop With A Hot Iron On Top Of It Courtesy Of Her Brother
This Is The One Thing I Am Most Worried About Before Getting On A Plane
To Enjoy That Sunny Mid-January Weather
That Feeling When You Have A Good Clear Out And All You've Got To Do Is Put The Rubbish In The Bin... Well I Had That Feeling Until I Got To The Stairs And The Handle Snapped
Stray Bullet Landed On A Solar Panel I Just Installed
The Handle Of My Serving Spoon Snapped. Turns Out The Handle Was Full Of Sand And It Ruined My Delicious Turkey Stuffing Leftovers
I Dunno Why My Friend Did This, I Just Thought It Would Fit Here
Dropped My Credit Card In A Public Toilet. While It Had A Stranger's Pee In It
What Could Go Wrong If I Forget Sunscreen
Had Some Trouble With The Ketchup Dispenser At Work
Friggin Rock
Thank goodness the glass stopped it from harming you. Could have been deadly.
Got Trapped In A Toilet In China With This Note On The Mirror. Found It Translates To "Please Do Not Lock The Door"
100 Yard Golf Shot Straight To The Face While Watching Sunset In Backyard Of Home On Golf Course
Smelled Gas, Very Strong. Couldn't Locate. Called Emergency Number. Showed Up. Turned Out To Be A Safety Flyer In My Recyling That Had A Gas Smell "Sample" On It
Got Home From Work Today. Realized I’ve Been Walking Around Meeting Clients With A Giant 6-7 In Rip In My Pants That No One Said Anything About. So I Figured The Internet Should Also Know
Tried To Capture The Moment I Proposed To My Girlfriend This Weekend
The Best Spot In The Parking Lot Is Empty For A Reason
Came Home For A Week To Help My Parents Out With Some Yard Work. Turns Out, I Don’t Know What Poison Ivy Looks Like
Forgetting About Your Pizza For 8 Hours. Burnt So Bad It Looks Like A Double-Chocolate Brownie
Damn You, Autocorrect
Dropped The Oil Filter In The Oil Pan While Changing It
Former One Direction Member Niall Horan Votes ‘No’ On A Fan’s Poll Whether She Should Date Him
A Friend On IG Posted This To Their Story Yesterday
My Wife Reminded Me Several Times To Put The Dog In His Kennel And I Did Not. He Promised He Would Be A Good Boy And He Was Not
I Met Adam Savage And Had Someone Take Our Picture
It's Not What It Looks Like. It's A Smoothie
It Finally Happened To Me
Just Had My Car Detailed And My Kid Was Sick
I’m Literally In A Bathroom Stall At Work Right Now Covered In Clown Paint And I Just Tried Wiping It Off And It's Not Coming Off
I'm thinking you should use some water and no, don't use the water from the stall that you're in.
Tried Recreating The Spider-Man Meme With A Panorama And Tripped On My Way To The Other Side
Took My Truck In For An Alignment. I Think They Are Doing It Wrong
Time To Move, I Guess
Came Back From Holidays To Find My Second Phone Like This
My Steam Iron Wasnt Working Properly So I Decided To Run It With Vinegar, Thinking It Might Be Related To Calcium Deposits. Guess I Was Right
I Thought I Was Going To Die In A Playground
Before And After I ****** Up At Work
Only My Boyfriends Certification He Worked Months On. Thats All. Damn You USPS
My Day
I Just Broke The Door Handle Of My Apartment And Cut Myself. I'm Also Locked In
You can still turn what's left of the handle and you can use a key in the lock.
Had To Check If There Was Pressure In The Pipe. Well Yes, There Was. P.S. It's Black Carpaint
"Bet I Can Make It Across"
We Didn’t Have The Heart To Tell Him
Yes, no heart in fact, haha how mean to let him have toilet paper hanging off all day
First Night In The New House And My Wife Cooks A Plastic Bag On The Brand New Stove
That is the reason induction stove is the best. No accidental melting of anything.
I Went To Give An Important Presentation And This Happened
The Oculus Quest Apparently Doubles As A $400 Dog Treat
Cringe For Me And The Amount Of Customers Who Likely Saw This Today
I totally forgot that having ‘now playing’ as a face on your Apple Watch isn’t just for music, but just the last ‘media’ you might have watched that day. It’s the new watch, too, the one that doesn’t turn off the screen.
When Class Is Canceled And I’m The Only One To Not Read The Email And Show Up
The Way She Turns Around In Horror
Exactly what was she doing there? That doesn't look like paper mache.
Received This Text Yesterday While Eating Our Last Nectarine. My Husband Also Hates Tomatoes
Parking A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
Who Dis
I don't see the issue here, it's a chat message so it's pretty normal to receive an odd response. They should have introduced themselves first thing. It's weird to me they didn't call for the interview, but texted her.
I Tried To Add Some Chicken Salt To My Chips
Oh No
I find it ironic one of the authors of this "some people just have bad luck" post is named "James Caunt".
I often try to see more pressing the know see 80 or so more, and it doesn't work... why is that?
The topic of these is kinda dumb cause people can way worse days than these pics.... Trust me cause I have!
Oh Bored Panda, I needed a laugh so badly and you sure came through with these. Thank you for making my day!
Many of these people posted on their own accord, perhaps to feel better about their situation and share some cheer around too
Load More Replies... I find it ironic one of the authors of this "some people just have bad luck" post is named "James Caunt".
I often try to see more pressing the know see 80 or so more, and it doesn't work... why is that?
The topic of these is kinda dumb cause people can way worse days than these pics.... Trust me cause I have!
Oh Bored Panda, I needed a laugh so badly and you sure came through with these. Thank you for making my day!
Many of these people posted on their own accord, perhaps to feel better about their situation and share some cheer around too
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