“And I Thought I Was Lazy”: 50 People Who Took Laziness To Infuriating Levels (New Pics)
While I am not an expert, I want to believe that being lazy is normal and natural if not taken to an extreme. The extreme being a degree where it’s not just inconvenient but also counter-intuitive, self-harming, and it actually starts affecting other people.
Someone being so lazy that it infuriates you fits the bill, and that’s the name of the game in this listicle. Folks online are sharing times when they found someone being so lazy (or the legacy thereof) that it hurt their brain, either figuratively or literally because they probably had to suffer the consequences.
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Laziness is considered to be a lack of individual effort in order to perform or act as expected. So, being capable of doing something, but choosing not to, fits that criteria.
Some psychologists, however, point out that there’s another, synonymous term, procrastination, that has a fine nuance to distinguish it from laziness. With this one, it’s choosing not to do something after having had intentions of doing it. Laziness, on the other hand, is never having had intentions of doing it in the first place.
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Anyway, if you were to say that procrastination is a bit of an epidemic among folks, you wouldn’t be wrong. Studies have shown that up to 20% of adults feel that they struggle with procrastination. That goes double (well, double and a half) with college students, of whom 50% have trouble with partaking in the forbidden fruit. And this applies to everyone, even the most hard-working individuals out there.
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The causes of procrastination come in many shapes, flavors and sizes. One of the more surprising finds among researchers is that it can serve as a coping mechanism. Not for coping with time management issues—rather for emotion management.
For some, finishing a task of a job might bring up anxiety or even a general feeling of avoidance. Putting it off, though, helps tackle the problem. Heck, procrastination can be interpreted as a rational reaction to an unpleasant situation, hence putting it off until you’re ready.
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There should be a warning and a threat to be put on the no-fly list
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Another reason why procrastination is a thing is, in simple terms, it’s boring and icky. The brain learns that habitual behaviors and actions can be skipped by means of procrastinating, instead going for things that would be more enjoyable.
Interestingly enough, age can be a factor too. Because we have this thing called the prefrontal cortex, which is all about planning, decision making and concentration (among other things), having one that hasn’t matured yet might lead to some more rash decisions, like skipping out on doing work now without considering the impact.
This Represents A Single Week Of Mugs And Glasses That My Wife Leaves In Our Bathroom. I Clean All Of These Every Week, And They Are Back The Next One. Anyone Else Feel My Pain?
leaving this many dirty cups from ONE PERSON even in the kitchen is not understandable imo, CLEAN YOUR CUPS OMG
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I was going to say the same thing. The way I look at it, even if she doesn't clean them up, eventually she will run out of either cups/glasses or space to put them down.
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Get rid of all the extra mugs. If she only has one left to use, she might change her tune and start being more responsible.
Hey a 2 person household ? Toss out all the extra cups and only have 2 in the cupboard !
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Why don't you just leave them there? You just wash your cup daily. If she can't respect you, why clean up after her???
Oooh, petty but what a sweet revenge. I like how you think.
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Leave them! Wash your own mug and see if she eventually gets the message that she's lazy.
My thought. Or neurological issues, that could be the first sign.
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Every time you see one, move it. To her briefcase, coat pocket, her side of the bed, under her pillow. Or you could try communicating that it bothers you, and work out a solution.
When my kids used to leave their stuff around, I’d pick it up and throw it down to the unfinished basement. 100% recommend.
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This is disrespectful and indicative of how OP is treated in every aspect of the marriage.
Just leave them there for one week and eventually she'll clean them up, as she'll have no more room to put the fresh one!
So ... stop enabling her. She is a f*cking grown a** woman, right? Just leave them there.
You get 1 cup 1 glass lock the rest away. She wants to act like a teenager she gets treated like one.
Not really. Seems your wife has a maid to clean up after her. Try withholding intimacy until she learns her lesson. That’ll teach her good.
I have lots of mugs in cupboards for guests. The ones I use stay on the shelf under the window(in the kitchen). One for coffee, one for tea, one for soup and one for hot cocoa. They are washed after each use and replaced on the shelf for easy access.
Don't clean, leave them for her to clean. She will, when there are no more mugs/cups/glasses.
Leave them there. When she can't find a mug or glass, she'll wash one. As long as you keep cleaning up behind her, she will keep doing it.
Let them pile up until she has no more, then seek a divorce attorney.
I have a mug with a handle on each side, so it works for both right- and left-handed people.
Don't you clean them up. Just leave them. She'll run out of mugs and glasses at some point, and she'll have to do it!
My sister does this, but she leaves her half-full glasses of mocha-with-caramel-drizzle-whatever-the-heck under the sink. In the bathroom. I clean them up when the bathroom starts smelling like rotting sugar. To make it even worse, my parents have repeatedly told her that she makes coffee too often, and she doesn’t need it to wake up in the morning, and they’re constantly running out because she’s wasting all of it.
Dump her disgusting butt! If she’s like this in small things - I wouldn’t step foot in your house! 👎🏻👎🏾👎👎🏼
Buy her a mug that has a message on about her lazy behaviour. But be careful that the message should be written backwards so she can see it while looking in the mirror.
Quit picking up after her. Let her have to deal with it. She does that because she knows you will. You are encouraging this by cleaning her mess. Me I would put it in the middle of where she sleeps.
Your wife needs to learn, if the mug or glass starts in the kitchen, it ends in the kitchen. I'm so sorry she does this.
Let them stay in the bathroom, if you can. If she can't find a clean one in the kitchen, she'll know where to get a dirty one ..
You must have a great relationship with this person, have you ever talked to her about this ? I might suggest a 2 week business/solo vacation and see what it looks like on your return !
Cleaning up after someone repeatedly reinforces their sloppy behavior.
Try putting them in a box and storing them away til there are no clean ones left
No, I don't feel your pain because I would never tolerate living with somebody this lazy, selfish and disrespectful.
instead of enabling her every week why not let the bıtch clean up her own filth?
if your house has 4 people, only have 4 cups/mugs. hide/ get rid of the rest
What else do you do for her? there must be a reason why she feels entitled to do it.
Leave them there. Make her clean one if she wants to use one. Not your responsibility.
You married her, lol. When you guys were shacking up, you didn't notice that she did this kind of thing? This isn't a new habit, she's been doing this for a long time.
Say 'we're shagging for every glass/mug you leave out and I have to clear.' Or if that's not you thing then '10mins of me time for each one.'
Kitchen is one thing but the restroom? What is she doing in the restroom that feels the need to have coffee and that's way more than necessary! I could see a water glass or two but 7 glasses and 7 mugs?!
Ask her to clean them up. If she doesn't, pile them on her side of the bed.
Perhaps throw away all the cups and mugs except one. She'll have to keep using the same one and if it's left there as it is, she'll have no choice but to wash and reuse it unless she drinks her beverages straight from the bathroom sink. However, this type of lazy person will just buy more cups and repeat the same bad habits.
Leave them.and keep one for yourself then she will have to clean them
I know people like that and I always think if I was their partner and had to survive one night with them, I will kill them in their sleep
I feel your pain. My wife takes her morning drink too the bathroom too finish getting ready, and then leaves the cup. I just dump it out and put it on her pillow like a chocolate mint.
Throw them all in the trash. When you run out of cups and glasses, provide paper cups.
Throw them all out with the rubbish. If she asks where they are, say: I thought you didn't want them as you haven't taken any care of them - ever.
Start tossing them in the garbage. It's not your job to live the unwanted parts of other people's lives. Despite what our society says.
start reducing the number of coffee mugs you have around. Either hide them or get rid of them. She'll have to start washing them if she wants her daily coffee.
Ration the drinking vessels. Send the surplus to a thrift store. Also, stop washing them up and put her drinks in the dirty ones.
Remove all but one mug, and or glass. That's a total cluster f**k.
In my flat I have four mugs. The rest are hidden away. There’s no way that my washing up can wait a week.
Just start throwing them out. This is what my supervisor started doing at the place I used to work at. Because we were the last department to leave, we cleaned up the breakroom. She just started throwing them out if they were left dirty in the sink. There was a dishwasher right there that people were to lazy to open for 5 seconds.
I'd start throwing them in the trash and replace them with disposable cups! You are enabling her poor behavior...
I would only clean one I use and dump the rest on her desk or side of the bed.
I feel the need to defend this woman a bit, even if I do not understand the bathroom being the place where her mugs go to die :)) But struggling with ADHD, I also tend to forget my mugs and cups all over the house and office. This issue needs addressing and the wife needs a bit of understanding.
Ooooh, I thought maybe a cup for swishing water or mouthwash, but judging by the contents of the mugs that doesn't seem to be the case
This is where using the word 'bathroom' when you mean toilet gets everyone confused. Maybe this is the actual bathroom i.e. where there's an actual bath? Maybe she drinks them in the bath? I get the impression that this is one of those things that couples have where one of them allows the other one to have a bad habit as part of the relationship, as long as the other one is allowed to 'poor me' to their friends about it once in a while.
In the US, toilet +sink=bathroom. It's also toilet+sink+shower or tub=bathroom. This is what we call it.
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Go on just take the last f*****g icecube you can't inconvenience me any more than you already have
Other reasons include more run-of-the-mill explanations, like lack of energy, willpower and sleep, having learned laziness from someone, distraction and some folks might just be born with it. Yes, you can have personality characteristics, like low conscientiousness and impulsivity, that might make you more prone to putting things off. Heck, being a perfectionist can have the same effect—it kinda ties in with the whole unpleasant emotional baggage of doing a task because of the self-imposed high standard.
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Psssshhh. Some of these posts, it takes a lot of effort to be that lazy!!
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But, to be or not to be lazy is trivial. The key question here is whether it’s good or not. The fact that it can get you into trouble because of the habit of not doing stuff on time or at all, being unreliable as a human being and that snowballing into bigger issues is definitely not good. But does it directly affect health and well being? Science says it doesn’t know (yet), what is known is that it can prevent positive behaviors from happening. You know, like wanting to exercise and be healthy!
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Oh, that's how my former colleague used to leave our common desk. Sheets of paper, pens, clips, agendas, plus personal items such as lipstick, comb, mirror, half-eaten croissant etc. Until one day when I decided I had enough of it. I took a big plastic bag and put all of her scattered items inside. She was outraged and escalated it to our manager, who was on my side (moreover, he said I could throw all that "garbage" away from then on). You wouldn't believe how tidy she became after that :)))
And because we’re human—i.e. complex beings—perception often throws a spanner in the works in understanding whether we’re truly lazy or not.
Say a person has a daily to-do list of 20 things, but only ends up going through maybe half of them by the end of the day. In that case, of course there’s going to be that view that we’re lazy—just look at all the stuff you’ve been slacking off on! In reality, however, that’s not being lazy, but rather having far too much to do trying to exceed a physical and mental limit. If anything, that’s working too hard.
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Public Park Near Toronto, Canada. Why Are People Such A Pigs?
Ugh! Looks like a beautiful park, too, such vibrantly green grass 💚
Someone Locked His Bike On My Bike Without Even Trying To Lock It To The Stand
I'd take a picture first as proof then claim both bikes. Technically not your fault because you had to remove your bike while another was stuck to it.
Considering all of this, face the fact that being lazy isn’t bad and it’s unavoidable. Consider it forced rest. As for how to get the biggest bang out of your buck by not letting procrastination and laziness take the top spot, try these on for size:
Prioritize your tasks to make sure time-sensitive ones are done first; punch down larger projects into smaller, more approachable tasks; limit your distractions at the workplace; and if that doesn’t help, create an environment that helps you focus, i.e. music.
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That’s foul. TWO different organic substances (husks and saliva) that will ROT. Organic stuff decays, people. It doesn’t just go into magical stasis. Eurgh.
The list goes on: don’t forget to take regular breaks to reward your brain with something less daunting and more stimulating; keep your focus on the end-goal as it might motivate you more; move around or exercise during breaks to keep the right chemicals circling around in you; track your healthy habits, like 'I’ve done X amounts of work' for context and self-reflection; and you can always get a buddy to hold you accountable.
Though, keep in mind that this might also be a situation of Monopoly, where you begin the game as friends and then become sworn enemies because Cheryl nabbed Park Place.
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And if you don’t yet have a headache from all the infuriatingly, brain-numbing acts of laziness against humanity in this listicle, then you might also enjoy another one.
And if you’re feeling lazy then, at the very least, leave a comment sharing some of your stories and takes, and why not also slap that upvote button while you’re at it.
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Hmmm...would the municipality be expected to be responsible for this given the size & proximity to power lines & the roadway?
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My Neighbor Drove Into Part Of My Back Fence 2 Months Ago And Hasn't Cleaned It Up
That's his garage on the left being partially blocked. Maybe he thinks it's a crime scene and he won't get the insurance claim if he cleans it up. I don't know.
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Please Put It Back Where You Found It
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The Roommate's Rice Cooker Has Turned Into Brain-Like Tissue. He Refuses To Clean It And Leaves It On The Shared Kitchen Counter
Lazy Plumbers Installed Leaky Pipes In My Bathroom. Now, There Are Mushrooms Growing On My Ceiling
So that's why mushrooms sometimes pop out when Mario hits his head on the ceiling.
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My Wife Cutting The Sausages For The Biscuits. That's Why The Other Pan Looks Like This
I didn't know there were so many folks who weren't aware of how toxic that non stick coating is....
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Absolutely life-threatening. This happens when palettes are not properly secured. Once a driver set down such a "package" at my company - we refused to accept it, as we saw no way how to safely unload the palettes without someone getting hurt. After an hour of angry phone calls and multiple threats of legal action the logistics company finally sent some people to deal with it. They were cursing all the time.
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I'm surprised how many of these are married/partnered. I can't fathom being in a relationship with someone so disgusting, let alone live with them.
Seriously. My other half does many of these. If I didn't have kids, it'd be a divorce-maker for sure. :(
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My sister won't close the doors, turn off the lights, or clean up her own mess so basically if I don't catch it soon enough I'm in trouble for being a lazy piece of s**t for not fixing her messes and also I'm the reason the electricity bill is so high because I don't close all the doors for her. Yes, it is infuriating.
Ya'll let people get away with so much while living with them, its amazing! Here, you'll just wake up to someone throwing ALL your trash on your bed, liquids, solids...semi-solids, everything. Good luck dealing with it. Them the most important part, dare you to do it again. Wahala go dey!
A sad yet easy conclusion to such post is that only harsh punishment and shaming stop trashy behaviors. In the cleanest countries, if you throw a paper to the ground, you get a very harsh fine. That’s how you make people assimilate respect in their daily behavior. Education clearly isn’t enough, some people only fear punishment.
I would like to clarify some of these. this is in no way an apology post to excuse all these horrendous acts, but rather to clarify that we are not ALL like this. How some people can be seen as lazy, they might just have something going on in their head. I myself have ADHD, so some of the things like these I've done, have not been a case of "i dont wanna do it, its not my job to do this, its the staff's" its just that ive forgotten after zoning out for a while,and i dont realize it. But this is not the case for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ON THIS LIST. for the kids that leave stuff a wreck, their excuse that i find only works up until maybe like, 9-10 years old because they just earned their own responsibilites is that they are a kid, and dont know any better, but its pointless to argue against entitled parents who let them do that, until the aforementioned age. Just found out about word limits, so im going to make each point seperate in the replies.
For the tourists on the plane who just left it in utter dismay their excuse is probably "i had a long flight, i dont wanna do any work". if you've had a long flight, you are probably a tourist FROM canada going here( take my advice,please dont) or visiting family who lives here, not going TO canada, so that excuse isnt valid. You are a grown a*s adult, clean up after yourselves, especially if you are a tourist. people like you are the reason why other countries have to give locations either A: a ban or at the very least a time limit on tourism and tourist hours, or B: a really heavy fine on littering and stuff like that, the latter of these two is probably more likely. Im disgusted by those people.
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I'm surprised how many of these are married/partnered. I can't fathom being in a relationship with someone so disgusting, let alone live with them.
Seriously. My other half does many of these. If I didn't have kids, it'd be a divorce-maker for sure. :(
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Ya'll let people get away with so much while living with them, its amazing! Here, you'll just wake up to someone throwing ALL your trash on your bed, liquids, solids...semi-solids, everything. Good luck dealing with it. Them the most important part, dare you to do it again. Wahala go dey!
A sad yet easy conclusion to such post is that only harsh punishment and shaming stop trashy behaviors. In the cleanest countries, if you throw a paper to the ground, you get a very harsh fine. That’s how you make people assimilate respect in their daily behavior. Education clearly isn’t enough, some people only fear punishment.
I would like to clarify some of these. this is in no way an apology post to excuse all these horrendous acts, but rather to clarify that we are not ALL like this. How some people can be seen as lazy, they might just have something going on in their head. I myself have ADHD, so some of the things like these I've done, have not been a case of "i dont wanna do it, its not my job to do this, its the staff's" its just that ive forgotten after zoning out for a while,and i dont realize it. But this is not the case for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ON THIS LIST. for the kids that leave stuff a wreck, their excuse that i find only works up until maybe like, 9-10 years old because they just earned their own responsibilites is that they are a kid, and dont know any better, but its pointless to argue against entitled parents who let them do that, until the aforementioned age. Just found out about word limits, so im going to make each point seperate in the replies.
For the tourists on the plane who just left it in utter dismay their excuse is probably "i had a long flight, i dont wanna do any work". if you've had a long flight, you are probably a tourist FROM canada going here( take my advice,please dont) or visiting family who lives here, not going TO canada, so that excuse isnt valid. You are a grown a*s adult, clean up after yourselves, especially if you are a tourist. people like you are the reason why other countries have to give locations either A: a ban or at the very least a time limit on tourism and tourist hours, or B: a really heavy fine on littering and stuff like that, the latter of these two is probably more likely. Im disgusted by those people.
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