American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once said: "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." Let's explore that tail, shall we? It's not an easy task, but Bored Panda put together a list of photos that capture this elusive silhouette quite well.
From a meatball that has spent decades in epoxy to 1,800-year-old Roman leather sandals, the things you're going to see below have all faced the biggest battle in the universe — the passage of time — but took different wounds. Continue scrolling to compare them and if you want more of the same, fire up our similar publications here, here, and here.
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The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea
Shout Out To Lodge For Replacing My 14 Year Old Dutch Oven Because The Enamel Chipped. No Hassles, Just A Free Replacement In The Mail One Week After Contacting Them
My Grandmother Has Kept Her Elementary School Lunch Box In Nearly Pristine Condition For Over 70 Years
I Inherited My Grandma's Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
The Knife At The Left Was Used By A Butcher For 5 Years Straight. The One At The Right Is The Exact Same Knife, But Brand New
This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
Brickwork By The Sea
My Work ID Has Been In Its Plastic Holder For So Long That It’s Imprinted This Ghostly Image Of My Face
My Neighbors Have An Old Chair With Plants Growing Over It
I Found This Leaf With Only It's 'Veins' Remaining
The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces
My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since
160 Years Of Foot Traffic Over The Step Into My Local Pub
This Tree Eating A Postbox
This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock
A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt
I Went Into The Office For The First Time Since March 2020 And Found The Kiwi I Left In My Desk
You Can Tell Where People Tend To Line Up At This Brooklyn Hardware Store By Where The Linoleum Tile Has Been Worn Away To Reveal The Original Ceramic
Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation
I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design
About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots
Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised
Great Grandmother's Potato Peeling Knife Still Used By My Grandmother In Her Late 80’s. She Says Her Mother Used It When She Was A Child
Keep it forever! My grandma gave me an old lamp that has been used in our family for over 90 yrs. Doesn't match any decor and the plug is weird but I'm keeping it forever!
Well-Pet Ducks
Bathrooms At My Engineering University
My Nana Has Been Using The Same Deck Of Cards For 10 Years And They’ve All Grooved To Her Hand Placement During Shuffling
Does she always win? She's probably memorised every little blemish on the back of each card.
100-Year-Old Logging Truck, Abandoned And Overgrown By The Trees It Once Helped Cut Down (Lynn Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film
Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer
A Tree Trunk With A Silver Kennedy 1/2 Dollar Coin
These Hand Prints In A Cave In Southern Utah
Faded Sign From The "War On Drugs" Era
30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy
60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle
Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick
Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use
Progression Of A Broom At A Machine Shop
This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine
This Guy Dancing At The Same Place For Weeks
Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii
A 39-Year-Old Fan Which Turns 40 Tomorrow
My Dad’s Tree Is Swallowing His Thermometer
This Pumpkin Got Tossed In The Chicken Run Last November But Other Animals Ate The Insides, Leaving A Fairly Intact Shell
Wear Marks In The Floor Of A Repurposed Levi’s Denim Factory. Someone Spent Their Whole Life Working And Standing In This Spot. Lamy’s Building, Sedalia, MO
That person was dead long before they died. Imagine heaving to spend every day of your working life being confined to a few square feet, probably doing the same mind numbing work day in and day out.
My Teal Post-Its Turned Green While I Was Out Of The Office For 15 Months
Basketball I Got 5 Years Ago vs. Basketball I Got Today
Found This At My Local Pharmacy
Business is business. Gotta keep your clients sick so they come back.
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I would eat that. Its mostly just corn syrup and I have a strong stomach
Might cure some antibiotic resistant bacteria too.
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WTH!! They should get rid of that immediately. Not only is it a lawsuit waiting to happen but some kid could get sick from eating em.
Alien Eggs! They are pretty tricky to locate. Not sure how long the incubation period is but when these hatch, all hell is gonna break loose because aliens love to run amok before going wherever they've been assigned to go. And they are going to very hungry. Id be sure to carry chocolate at all times. Don't know if they like it but I would need some if I were there to watch the miracle of life busting out of a gumball machine. Doesn't happen every day.
You should see the vending machine at my local laundry mat. It has stuff in it that I don't think they even make anymore,some molded, and some discolored. Sad thing is they advertise the vending machines on their website. An worse I saw a lady get like 4 things out of it and was inhaling it! 🤮 Oh,and there is a bakery/candy shop in the same shopping strip and a restaurant and Dairy Queen across the street.
Jeez. How outta date are they??? Pure laziness that they don't empty it out, clean it and refill it. Best place for that would be landfill. Those candies would be flipping toxic. Yuk.
that's like the m&m dispenser thing at the local bowls club. stopped eating them until recently because i got one that was just the shell full of dust. recently replaced all the m&ms so i think i'm the only one that uses it now.
It looks as though they may have become medicinal... penicillin anyone?
wHo wAnTs tO tRy sOmE wiTh mE? nobody? k I'll just show myself out..
This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use
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Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didn’t sit well with me. I’m skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didn’t sit well with me. I’m skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
