50 Times People Stumbled Upon Things That Were So Mildly Infuriating, They Had To Share Pics Online (New Pics)
It only takes so much to ruin a perfectly good day. From little things like waiting for the 5-second ad skip countdown, to paying for an overpriced meal that doesn’t even taste good, to dealing with bureaucracy and the wild goose chase it leads to. These minor annoyances, first-world problems, not-that-big-a-deal issues, or whatever you want to call them, they’re all around us. They're real. They’re blood boiling. And just thinking about them is enough to drive anyone up the wall.
Apparently, some of these hassles tend to trigger the same vague feelings of frustration in virtually everyone, uniting people in their experiences. Feeling irritated and uncomfortable, people instantly turn to the internet to vent. So we at Bored Panda have put together a list of photos of the mildly infuriating things and pet peeves that prove just how annoying everyday problems can get.
While we suggest you take a deep breath before you continue scrolling through this vivid compilation of pictures, you may find comfort in knowing there’s definitely someone who shares your pain. So enjoy (or loathe?) witnessing these annoyance-inducing examples and be sure to upvote the most accurate ones, and then let us know what tips you over the edge down below in the comments.
Psst! For more mildly infuriating madness, check out our earlier features here, here, and right here.
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Multi Billion Dollar Businesses Asking For Donations
EXACTLY. Can't donate to poor people if I myself am one, now, can I?
The Fact You Have To Pay At A Hospital Of All Places
I JUST REALIZE SOMETHING... a lot of people without socialized health care actually think that medicine actually costs the expensive asking price so they think there taxes will raise an extreme amount. OH NO. Oh no...
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I hope you deduct the cost on your taxes. Who is your employer, the Government?
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Paid $550 for my daughter to have OFF campus parking at her school. She has to take a shuttle from campus to her car if she wants to go anywhere. That should be included in the $30k per year tuition they charge.
Hospital parking is free where I live but unfortunately people abuse it by using it as a park and ride, leaving their cars all day and taking the bus to the town centre because there’s no free parking in town. So it’s almost impossible to get a parking space if you have an appointment or are visiting during the day.
They should charge and just validate parking for the patients at check in.
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I work at a hospital where they valet park for free. Some are at least trying.
My last university had two parking lots for the entire campus. Two. With like 15 spaces each. Makes 30 spaces. Additionally the city prohibited parking in the spots on the street after a couple of years, except you had a card saying you lived in the street. The most ridiculous thing, it was just a temporary prohibition, meaning you weren't allowed to park there from 8 am till 6 pm. (+ Most students live outside the city in rural areas with terrible public transport. The university knew it but didn't even consider creating car parks underneath new buildings...)
Come live in Denmark... We're being paid to go to Uni AND our healthcare is free. For everyone regardless of income and social status. It's free because we pay our taxes. And the more you earn, the higher the taxation.
Scotland has free parking at hospitals, has done for as long as I can remember
Unfortunately not at PPP or PPI funded hospitals or whatever they want to call themselves today. But yes you’re correct most are free which is great as when I was visiting my gran as a poor student the last thing I needed to worry about way paying as she was dying.
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As a medical student we are required to have cars as primary reliable transportation. Most of us prefer to not have to rely on public transportation, if it’s even available as we rotate through different cities at different hospitals, for safety reasons. We have varying hours and often leave and come home in the dark. Parking at some hospitals is $20 per day for students. It’s horrible.
Unpopular opinion: If parking is "free", you have to pay through the fees. And anyone who walks or rides or takes the bus has to pay for your "free" parking.
How about the hospital you WORK at? The "good" (read: close enough to the building you *might* not get mugged) garages were costing people upwards of $100/month at my old job.
I HATE having to pay for parking while I'm at the hospital. And when I was there for 10 days and people came to visit me... Why should it cost them $25? Also sometimes I charge by the quarter hour $ 2.50 for the quarter hour. Really you getting $10 an hour while I sit in the waiting room because my doctor is an hour behind? Not fair not cool.. Not good for my health
Oh, yeah, and at the University I work at. That one is beyond stupid.
if you give free parking at hospital, all people who need to go "nearby" the hospital will park there, filling the place instead of people who really need it
Couldn't agree more! The amount of times my family had to walk from streets away to get to the hospital because we couldn't afford to pay for parking was a significant part of my childhood! At least at the Royal Children's hospital, if your child was a patient you could get a free voucher per day of stay.
When I was at uni, paying 15K or so to go there, I had to get a name badge for my work placement. I had to pay $18 for it. Isn't that what my fees are for?
Hey, you're getting thousands of your student loans paid off by your hero. Why attend a university that you know beforehand will make you pay money to do such things? Do any of you read what you're paying for and make intelligent choices?
I have this conversation everyday at the hospital where I volunteer. People yell at me because they have to pay for parking. I'm a volunteer I do chip in a couple bucks when people need it but I can't afford to pay for everybody who needs to park at the hospital. I ride the city transit bus to work.
At least two hospitals where I live have free valet parking. This should be universal.
The only hospital in the area used to give you a token if you were doing blood work, testing, etc. Then COVID hit, no more tokens and they raised the parking to $2. For a 10 minute blood draw!
I can't believe you have to pay for the hospital's it's so s******g bizzare
How about the university you work for? Staff and faculty have to pay for parking also.
My kids parking sticker $225 Fall 2022 - Spring 2023. Her high school was $75. #UCK!
After this, can we talk about the parking Nazis found at most Universities, (at least in the U.S.)?
Yeah, cuz if you're there you've already bankrupted yourself. And this post itself immediately IDs it OP as American. Why? Cuz every other industrial nation in the f@%&<g world ensures its inhabitants' health. SO proud to be a 'Murrican!! 🙄
It was so nice during COVID they stopped charging for parking at the hospital, but it's back now
It's hit or miss here in New York; some hospitals are free parking and some you have to pay.
Fun fact- In Australia those private car parks literally cannot force you to pay the fines, as they can't look up your private details to send a reminder fine. I got one 2 years ago when my gran was dying, never heard anything since. Doesn't count for council fines.
If they didn’t do that jerks would park their cars there who have no business at those locations
The local hospital automated parking garage used to have an "escape" button on the entrance/exit kiosks. If you lost your ticket, you could just hit the button and the arm would raise and let you out. No one knew the button existed until someone taped a small message above it with an arrow that said, "You already took all my $$$". That lasted for a few weeks. Buttons have now been disabled.
My friend went to go see her daughter and granddaughter at a children’s hospital in St.Louis and had to spend over $20 in parking just for a few hour visit.
The greatest fun of all is to not find paid parking (!!!) outside your hospital when in labour because all the spots are taken.
Sion hospital (Switzerland) once threatened to block my car after dropping off a colleague with a nasty cut that needed stitches on the ER. I had literally dropped everything and drove him to the hospital and didn't have any wallet/papers on me. Long nasty argument with the help intercom and the only reason they let me through (after 25min) was because I refused to move my car from in front of the gate so nobody could get out. Hate paid hospital parking lots with all I got...
I've worked in hospitals in highly populated areas and the parking cost more than the average of the neighborhood. The reason for this is to discourage people just heading to the office building across the street from taking a free/cheaper spot at the hospital. All three hospitals validated parking. If you worked there, your badge often got you out of the parking tower for free. Visitors and people whose hospital didn't have badge readers at the exit could be a paper card you stuck in the machine instead that got you out for free. EDIT: Patients with chronic conditions (dialysis, cancer, etc) that had to make frequent visits or family members of people in long term care (ICU. PCU, Surgical Recovery, etc) were given generic badges so they didn't have to worry about forgetting to get validated. I don't work there, but the hospital I use now has a parking lot you badge to enter just for chronic patients for easy in/out access and close to the door. A guy in a wheelchair coming for dialysis 3x a week shouldn't be fighting to find a handicap space.
In my country, at hospitals there's no parking, only for staff, and in private clinics only if you're going to an appointment or treetment, so tops 2 hours free parking. If you're visiting a patient, no parking for you.
I think parking costs at hospitals should be part of the medical costs, so free for patients, or covered by health insurance. It wouldn't be too difficult to make it free for patients and not free for people who just want to park there to go visit the city or visit someone in hospital. You could go to the helpdesk at the end of your appointment and they can see in the computer at what time you had your appointment and what time it is now, so they give you a card for the parking machine that gives you free parking starting 30 minutes before the appointment and ending 15 minutes from now.
We have it at hospitals in the UK - it depends on their location. The worst ones are the pay in advance, especially when attending A&E and having no idea how long you're going to be.
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I had to upfront for knee surgery ($20,000.00 I had to borrow) and it did not include sedation (you kind of want to go sleepy sleepy for that). So yeah paying for hospital parking? You’ve no idea in an emergency how long you might be there.
C**p lol, we have universal healthcare, that means we don't pay Jack for treatment, a wille back i had a severe infection on my mouth, só severe that locked my jaw, i LITTERALLY could not Open my mouth, só i went to the hospital, took X-Rays, went to the general doctor, which in Turn sent me to the throat doctor, which In Turn sent me to the dentist, now this took around 8 hours, for 8 hours i Walked that hospital like a frikking ping Pong ball, and i didn't payed anything, got to the parking lot..... 30€ that i had to pay ( FYI, 30€ for 8h, it would be more polite of them, to hold a gun to your face, and demanded your wallet)
Day after day, we consistently get annoyed by the little things. From picking up after our roommates to dealing with people who don’t understand the concept of personal space, it’s easy to lose self-control over these minor yet infuriating problems that get under our skin. But why do we tend to react to these repetitive and unpredictable inconveniences in a harsh manner? Is our anger and disappointment with the world something we can resist or even control?
To gain insight on the topic from an expert, we reached out to Dr. Jesse Matthews, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist based in Chester Springs, PA. According to him, frustration is a normal part of life because things don't always go our way and won’t always happen as we want them to.
"People who tend to be frustrated more often, however, often feel this way because of unrealistic expectations. For example, they expect that it won’t take them more than 20 minutes to get to work, so when they encounter traffic, they forget they had to stop for gas or there is a slow driver in front of them, and frustration quickly sets in."
It's safe to say that everyone can relate to these situations, but by "starting out with realistic expectations and taking any of these factors into account, we could actually flip the script and get to work the majority of the time without experiencing any frustration," Dr. Matthews told Bored Panda.
I Just Want A Bigger Pocket Please, Is That Too Much To Ask For? Sincerely, Women Everywhere
Never understood the logic of having tiny pockets in womens pants.
But Why Tho
We also got in touch with Dr. Jenn Veilleux, a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher of emotion and self-regulation. She explained that frustration is a feeling that belongs in the anger "family," or, in other words, it's a mild form of anger that resembles irritation.
Frustration is the most common emotional label we use when referring to everyday annoyances or larger issues in life. Together with anger, these emotions happen when a person interprets a situation as unfair or unjust — that someone has been wronged, Dr. Veilleux told us.
"Many (most? all?) people feel frustration sometimes, and that's actually a good thing because we have emotions for a reason! I like to tell my therapy clients that we can only feel emotions about things we care about, so frustration is a sign that something matters. If being frustrated is a sign that a situation is unfair or unjust, that feeling can prompt actions to correct the unfairness or injustice. Anger helps people confront wrongdoing, to right a wrong."
Whoever Invented These Teeny Tiny Tabs On Seals, You Are Not My Friend
Yup, I usually get my small knife and stab, I don’t even bother anymore
Hate It When This Happens
I mean, I get why its annoying but sometimes I don't mind the recommendations. The category that annoys me is the "Watch It Again" one, I have watched it once, no need to push me to watch it again for your viewership stats
Of course, seeing everything as an injustice is definitely not healthy. "Frustration occurs when the world isn't as it 'should' be," Dr. Veilleux added. "People who feel frustrated a lot often have rigid and inflexible thinking about how the world is supposed to work." But the problem with this line of thinking is that there is no "one" or "right" way the world is or should be.
When it comes to mildly infuriating things, they don’t immediately trigger wild emotions in us. A loud noise may take us by surprise and make us twitch. But our neighbor’s blaring music played over and over again during the night really tests our patience. "Mildly infuriating things can blow up into blood boiling when they aren't dealt with and managed," Dr. Veilleux noted.
Why Does This System Exist?
In Case You've Ever Wondered Why Women Get So Frustrated With Our Clothing Sizes - Every Pair Of Jeans Pictured, Is A Size 12
Manufacturers That Put These Labels On Their Products, Especially Food Products, Deserves To Step On A LEGO
A brief scroll through this list filled with pictures that arouse a vague feeling of frustration may convince you that there’s a universal element to these situations that everyone finds infuriating. According to Dr. Matthews, there’s a sense of ubiquitousness in minor stressors we experience in our daily lives. "Traffic, slow drivers, detours, waiting in long lines, or technology not working as expected are all things we can relate to and we expect them to be unpleasant, annoying, and even unbearable."
"We can also commiserate over them with friends or even bystanders once we arrive at our destination, which further validates our idea that these are things that just happen to us and helps us to maintain our views about them being as bad as they are," Dr. Matthews said.
A Little Peek Of What We Find Dumpster Diving. Maybe A Little More Than Just "Mildly" Infuriating
It’s The Middle Of The Night And I Can’t Open This Cake Lid Without Waking Everyone In A 10-Mile Radius
In Hospital For 4 Days. Dot Missing On Tile
However, things that make our neck hair stand on end and send out brain cells into anger mode can also vary from one person to another, Dr. Veilleux mentioned. "Things that annoy me (e.g., people not using turn signals, classes or meetings running late with no apology) don't annoy other people."
"We all have our 'things' that annoy us, but they are different things," Dr. Veilleux said. "A person who cares about the rules is irritated when rules are violated. A person who cares about social justice is frustrated by bigotry and discrimination. Because we have different depictions of fairness and what is right/wrong, we also have different frustrations."
Peeling These Things Off Always Annoys Me
I'm Just Trying To Refund Two Tickets
I thought the title said mildly infuriating? This is extremely infuriating 😡
I Got 19 Letters From Verizon Thanking Me For Enrolling In Paperless Billing
It’s important to remember that we feel these emotional responses for a reason. While usually, they lead to anger and uncomfortable feelings, they can also inspire us to act. "When frustration bubbles up into people taking action to make things happen differently or better, then frustration has done what it was designed to do. If frustration with ourselves prompts self-reflection and growth and learning, then that's also a good thing," Dr. Veilleux added. "Sometimes frustration needs to be 'harnessed.'"
Friggin' Hate This
Why Do They Always Put Stickers In Cooking Items?
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable
But when these minor annoyances take the better of you, they must be managed. Dr. Veilleux explained that regular feelings of frustration take a toll on physical and mental health, so always acting on them isn't helpful. In these cases, she prefers to think about "letting go" rather than control.
"Frustration is particularly frustrating (meta-frustration?) when a person feels like they can do nothing to change their situation," the psychologist said. "Sometimes that is true, and then frustration just eats a person alive from the inside. Then the solution is to open a window, acknowledge that the frustration is there, but focus the mind on pleasurable things or on areas of life that you can control." And when you reframe the situation, you allow for more flexibility that can help reduce anger.
This $10 Salad I Paid For At A Restaurant
I See Your Bread From Hole Foods And Present To You My Croissant
“Stay Here For $61”
Apparently, some steps can help us get through the experience in a healthy way. Controlling and managing our emotions and training ourselves to not get annoyed by the little problems starts by looking at the bigger picture, adjusting our expectations, and being prepared. Dr. Matthews advised to zoom out and see the whole scene, not only focus on the small part that upsets you.
"If you can look outside of yourself, you can see that the person driving slowly in front of you is not doing anything to you," he added. "You are unfairly personalizing their behavior because it’s impacting your own agenda."
This Only Happens When I’m In A Bad Mood
Shin Buster 9000
I Got This Bread From Whole Foods. More Like Hole Foods
So to adjust your expectations, you have to be realistic. For example, the next time you get ready to leave the house, track the time or, at least, add an additional 10 or 15 minutes to your trip, and make things easier for yourself.
"I can’t emphasize being prepared enough. In fact, this can be called practical self-care, and it’s a great way to take care of yourself," Dr. Matthews told us. "We often don’t want to do these things, but it involves things like going to bed early, getting your clothes ready the night before, waking up on time, leaving the house in enough time to get where you’re going, or doing school or work projects before the last minute. A little more work now can mean much less stress later."
This Is How They Send My Contacts. Every. Year
Ordered 27 Books From Amazon On A Single Order. Got 27 Boxes With 1 Book Each Delivered
No. Just No
I will grab the YT moderators by the scruff of their necks and say "WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
"Start working on changing your perspective (seeing the bigger picture), changing your expectations, and improving your self-care. A general theme is recognizing what you can and can’t control and taking action to control the things you can. Seeing a therapist might be a good idea, particularly if you find that these negative emotions are common," Dr. Matthews concluded.
These Fake Pockets. They Went As Far Enough As To Put A Real Zipper On
When They Pack The Paper Towels In So Tight That You Have To Dry One Fingertip At A Time
Dave & Busters Spin Game Landed On The 500 And It Only Gave Me 4 Tickets. Showed To Manager And Said It Needed To Be In The Middle
Job Expectations
Paper Straws, The Most Useless Item Ever Created
Yeah, especially when they dissolve & you end up drinking liquefied straw...
The Amount Of Packaging Required For Me To Buy The Additional Equipment I Need To Use My iPhone
All of this would have come in the phone’s box five years ago but Apple decided to stop including them to cut down on packaging and waste.
The Low-Hanging Fruit Of Bad Design
Shaking My Head
ohhhh i hate this one. as a prof, who has resisted using online homework platforms precisely because of BS like this. students shouldn't have to deal with finicky platforms on top of learning.
Wanted To Buy A Sandwich At This Bakery. At First, I Thought It Was Sesame. Well It Was Not
You Arrive 10 Mins Early For Your Train, The Train Gets Canceled, The Next Train Is 25 Mins Away, And It Arrives 15 Mins Late, And When The Doors Open You See This
This Egg Peeling Fiasco
My Local Gas Station Only Tells You How Much Something Costs If You Bring It To The Register
Yea, thats forbiden here, the price hás to be perfectly visíble, and hás to have the tax included
This Packaging For 1 Potato
As previously explained, this is because some people think microwaved potates taste better when wrapped with plastic, so this is catering to people who are running to work and want to grab something healthy for lunch. These are also sometimes parcooked. This is still just an explanation and not condoning anything.
I Don’t Understand How This Notice Can Exist
Left On My Sister’s Windshield. Who Is From Asheville, But Has South Carolina Plates. Stay Classy Asheville
Asheville is a wonderful city! Full of art and nature and quirky little bars and it is a progressive bastion in an otherwise conservative state. However it is completely dependent on tourism with 'leisure and hospitality' accounting for approx.. 15% of the jobs (not including secondary businesses like retail that get a boost from tourism). This is just some bitter, childish individual that doesn't understand their local economy.
I Hate It When This Happens
Why Are The Gaps So Big In US Bathroom Stalls
There Is An 11-Day Bin Man Strike In Edinburgh And This Is Only Day Two. Most Of The City Is Like This
This Toiletry Trash Can That Opens Into The Other Stall
When You Prefer To Buy Things In Person, But Its Not Even Remotely Feasible
Sorry - HOW much for network cable? Staples! I can order a drum of it for less.
I Opened My New Sketch Pencils Today. Honestly, I Don’t Know What I Did To Deserve This
They Put A Wooden Lid On The Plastic One To Make It Seem More Eco Friendly
Been In The ER Waiting Room Since 5 Pm, It's 5 Am Now With No Sign Of Being Seen Anytime Soon
Scared it's some sort of hernia or appendices. This is ridiculous. Nothing but respect and compassion for the medical personnel.
I don't know why this happens. Came in once bleeding out from a puncture wound... had to wait for ages until passed out from blood loss!
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I hate all of these so much. Someone's got to make a change for all of these and stop those greedy AF billionaires from charging so much money for everything, stop using so much packaging, and just stop covering your plastic use!
What is REALLY frustrating... when I get to the bottom of the post and the button says "load 83 more posts" but then doesn't load the damn posts!!!!!
Same! If it's one I really want to keep scrolling on, I open it in safari and it loads them all.
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Something else pretty frustrating- “ Please stop commenting on every single post. Dont mean to be rude, but please just stop.” You became the thing you sought to destroy.
I hate all of these so much. Someone's got to make a change for all of these and stop those greedy AF billionaires from charging so much money for everything, stop using so much packaging, and just stop covering your plastic use!
What is REALLY frustrating... when I get to the bottom of the post and the button says "load 83 more posts" but then doesn't load the damn posts!!!!!
Same! If it's one I really want to keep scrolling on, I open it in safari and it loads them all.
Load More Replies... Something else pretty frustrating- “ Please stop commenting on every single post. Dont mean to be rude, but please just stop.” You became the thing you sought to destroy.
