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50 Mildly Infuriating Situations That Are Oh-So Relatable (New Pics)
Most people would likely agree that the feeling of great annoyance—often over relatively minor things—is quite universal; people don’t need to speak the same language or be from the same area to know just how aggravating a sock sliding halfway off in a shoe can be.
Similar annoying occurrences are often depicted on the ‘Mildly Infuriating’ subreddit, which currently boasts over 7.4 million members from all over the place. For many of them, the sub is a source of comfort that they’re not alone in being annoyed by the daily inconveniences in life, and if you’re curious to see what said inconveniences entail, scroll down to find some examples on the list below; but do it at your own risk, as they might leave you mildly infuriated, too.
Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interviews with Emeritus Professor of Psychology Joseph Hellige and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at The University of Delaware, Philip Gable, who were kind enough to answer a few of our questions about why we find certain things mildly infuriating.
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#1
That's Probably The Most Infuriating Thing About The Tape
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#2
The Aluminum Foil Is Stuck Like This
#3
When You Tear Exactly Where It Says To, But The Bag Remains Sealed
#4
The Pocket Size In Female vs. Male Levi’s Jeans. I‘Ve Just Bought The "Male" Model Which Fits Me Perfectly. Why Do Jeans Manufacturers Think That Women Don’t Deserve Large Pockets?
Little Wonder 2 years ago
Apparently pockets "spoil the line" of the clothing, which is more important on women because as you know we're purely ornamental.
#5
This Makes Me Unreasonably Mad Every Time I Walk By
#6
New Sports Bra Comes With Over 20 Tags Sewn In. It Takes Surgical Precision To Remove Them Without Damaging The Bra
#7
Oh, Come On. Mildly Infuriating Indeed
#8
Nothing Worse Than Rock-Hard Butter, Thin White Bread, And A Whole Lot Of Hunger
#9
This Happens To Me Every Time
Ronstantin 2 years ago (edited)
Wellll, the perforation on the side might be an indication for a better solution 😉 (Nevertheless, I can empathise!)
#10
For The 1000th Time, I Made The Mistake Of Touching My Ice Cream Sandwich
#11
Wore These "Waterproof" Hiking Boots For 30 Minutes In The Rain. Now I Have To Walk Home
#12
All Of My Bananas Unpeeled Themselves As I Slept Last Night. I’ve Never Seen This Happen Before
#13
It Finally Happened. I Was Prompted To Tip At The Airport Self-Checkout Station
#14
My Wife Is Grocery Shopping For Thanksgiving, And There's Only One Cashier Open
#15
My Alarm Clock Likes To Randomly Change Its Brightness To Match The Surface Of The Sun. This Thing Is Unreasonably Bright (Not Edited, This Thing Lights Up The Entire Room)
StumblingThroughLife 2 years ago
Mine doesn't do that, but I still cover it with a flannel as I can't sleep with any light in the room. (I must be a vampire, lol)
#16
It’s Getting Out Of Hand. Asked To Tip For An Online Purchase, When I Put $0, It Redirected Me To This
#17
This Typo Caused Me To Fail The Entire Assignment
#18
ATM At Grand Central Ate My Debit Card
#19
Printer Pulled This Nonsense Right Before Alerting Me It Was Low On Ink
#20
There’s No Way Anyone Believes This Is An Efficient Way To Display Drinks. Had To Open 5 Doors Until I Found What I Wanted
Paul Scheermeijer 2 years ago
Use camera qr code to see content ? They do know there are clear windows available right??
#21
Why Does This Always Happen?
#22
They're The Same Number
#23
Explaining Silent "K" To A 2-Year-Old Is Needlessly Annoying
#25
I've Been Stuck Here Waiting For The Train To Move For The Last 40 Minutes
Paul Scheermeijer 2 years ago
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding....... aaaaarrrrggggg
#26
This Is Why I Hate Paper Straws
#27
Taste The Feeling (Frustration)
#28
I’m 28
#29
The Way These Canvases Were Hung Up In The Bathroom Of My Local Sushi Restaurant
Rachel Pelz 2 years ago
Took me a while to figure out that the left one needs to go right. Their sushi must be great then, I guess?
#30
The Giant Hole(S) In My Loaf Of Bread. We Pay $8 For This Specialty Allergy-Free Bread, And Half Of It Is Unusable For Sandwiches. I Had To Laugh
#31
The Way The Plastic Film Doesn’t Come Off Of The Fridge Handles. Been Like This For 3 Years
#32
I Got A Free Printer From Somebody Moving, Turns Out The Ink In It Can't Be Used Without A Subscription
Little Wonder 2 years ago
I refer to my earlier comment about the future sucking, and also I hope HP goes bankrupt.
#33
All The Icing On My Donut Stuck To The Bag
#34
When Converse Shoes Do This. I Hate When The Tongue Doesn't Stay Centered
#35
You Are Given 0 Time To Interpret This Sign And All Of Its Arrows
#36
Waited Two Months For A Doctor's Appointment, Left An Hour Early
I called and said I'd be 30 minutes late. They said, "Sucks to be you, if you want to reschedule the next availability is February".
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
This is just how going anywhere in Bangalore feels. You have to make plans weeks in advance because of the traffic. We spend minimum 2 hours in commuting everyday
#37
When You Take A Pregnancy Test And Get No Result
My husband and I are dying to find out. So, I took a test, and I did not get "pregnant" or "not pregnant". I literally got NO results. A defective test - it's really frustrating. Trying a different brand test tomorrow morning.
#38
Wrong End Of The Fork Fell Into The Bowl. Not The End Of The World, But Certainly Mildly Infuriating
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Oh, gods, I don't know why I hate it SO MUCH when the holdy-part of my spoon or fork falls into the food, but I HATE IT! I know I can just wipe it off, but for some reason it is just so oooough XD
#39
The Sizes For My Uniform At Work
#40
This Roll Of Toilet Paper That Gets Thinner And Thinner As You Unwind It
I started to rapidly unspool it to see how far it went on like that because I figured it couldn’t be far. Still searching for the end of it.
#41
Brand New Shoes With Their Own Shoelaces
#42
First Time Wearing These Weatherproof Steel-Toe Boots. Two Hours Into My Shift, The Leather Has Already Completely Cracked
#43
The Security Tag In This Book Didn’t Come Off Cleanly
#44
Spent 3 Hours On This Puzzle For This. I Swear I've Triple-Checked, All The Other Pieces Are In The Right Spot
Tiffany Sauter 2 years ago
It looks to me that the piece to the right of the second missing piece actually goes in the other missing piece's spot. Then the piece above the missing piece will fit into that spot and the other piece goes next to it.
#45
Our Food Processor Is Battery-Powered, But The Battery Only Lasts For 2 Minutes, And I Can't Use It While It's Charging
#46
The "Medium" Sized T-Shirt I Got My Husband For Christmas With An Actual Medium Shirt On Top. There Are Slight Size Differences, And Then There Is This
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I've had the same thing happen when buying shirts from Big W here in Oz. Same brand and style of t-shirt, just different colours and bought at the same time. I had to buy one medium, one large and one small to get all of the to be "medium". So both the small and the large were sized wrong. Quality control is non-existent on cheap products.
#47
Wanted To Use My Nintendo eShop Card, But Peeled Off The Code With The Sticker
Bewitched One 2 years ago
Ohhhhh my fiancé almost did this to one of my kids’ cards. He said “it looks like a sticker, maybe it peels” I said “ABSOLUTELY DO NOT”. Guess what. It was a scratch off lol I learned from a similar thread not to peel the silver scratch off looking stickers thankfully.
#48
After Finishing My DIY LED Cloud Lights, Part Of The Strip Just Happens To Change To A Different Color
The only way to fix this is by taking all of the polyester fiber down and restringing a new set of lights that aren’t faulty.
#49
That Was Only Wine Opener As Well
#50
When Our Plates Chip, It’s Always In The Same Way And Size
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Methinks you're storing them in a way that causes the chipping, or storing something near them causing the chipping XD
#51
No Soup For Me, I Guess
#52
Comes Off Every Time I Use It. Every. Single. Time
#53
Bought Three Thermometers To Check The Temperature In My House. All Of Them Showed Different Numbers
#54
This Is What Wearing Cheap “Blue Swede Shoes” In The Rain Gets You
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
WindySwede, I blame you for these faulty blue "swede" shoes! XD (joke)
#55
My Shark Shuts Off Every Time I Put It In This Room. Only In This Room
This room only has one door stop and it hits it every single time it's placed to clean in there while other rooms have several of the same stoppers and it has yet to happen anywhere else.
The Shark just kinda bounces around randomly so... What the heck?
Why does it even have this poorly placed switch when hitting any of the buttons on top will make it stop immediately?
#56
Why Would You Put The Sticker Inside Of The Bowl?
#57
I Had Been Wearing My AirPods For The Exact Same Amount Of Time. Granted, They Are Around A Year Old, But Still, Why?
#58
Why Do Baguettes Always Have The Top On The Show? Makes The End Go Hard And Dry
#59
There’s No Hole To Relieve The Suction/Pressure In My Water Bottle, So I've To Stop Drinking Every Two Seconds. And Every Time I Stop Drinking It Makes Noise
#60
It Took 14 “Orange Juice” Oranges To Get This Amount
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
Mildly infuriating things...like BP changing the title of a thread multiple times AFTER posting it, reducing the number of posts on a thread and hiding comments, using a completely wrong stock photo (all the time), censoring the most random words for no apparent reason, Amazon shopping threads, and lame celebrity threads.
Kylie 2 years ago
I really HATE it when they change the title so half the comments look stupid, and even more so when they remove half the posts so you can't find the one you were looking at when you come back to the article
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
Mildly infuriating things...like BP changing the title of a thread multiple times AFTER posting it, reducing the number of posts on a thread and hiding comments, using a completely wrong stock photo (all the time), censoring the most random words for no apparent reason, Amazon shopping threads, and lame celebrity threads.
Kylie 2 years ago
I really HATE it when they change the title so half the comments look stupid, and even more so when they remove half the posts so you can't find the one you were looking at when you come back to the article
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