Back in the day (and still happening today as well), people would draw straws to see who would have to do something unpleasant. Whoever picked the shortest straw would be the person that…well…lost.
These 22 people have definitely drawn the short straw and we’re so glad we’re not them.
So – if you’re having a bad day and need some cheering up, just know that there are people out there that are have a far worse day than you are. Trust us. Continue on to the next slide to see for yourself.
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1) It’s a messy situation here
Painting a room or a house is hard work on its own. The last thing you want is for the task to become even harder. Welp. This person happened to lose their paintbrush inside the paint can and, of course – the handle went in first.
2) Down pillow no more
This person had to learn a lesson the hard way. Do not put a real down pillow inside the dryer. Now, this person will be finding feathers in their laundry every time they do chores for the next few months. What a disaster. And now? They don’t even have a pillow!
3) See ya never!
If it’s a rainy and windy day outside, umbrellas can be a real pest to deal with. It’s so embarrassing to be walking down the street during a sprinkle or downpour only to have your umbrella turn completely inside out. Or, in this case, completely fly away to another country.
4) Overly-heated heating element
Hotels and motels will often provide you with a water kettle that heats water in a matter of a couple of minutes. This person won’t be heating water anytime soon. We’re not sure if the heating element freaked out, maybe this person thought you set it on the stove. We can’t quite figure it out.
5) Stilettos through the windshield
There are many reasons why you should never put your feet or legs up on the dashboard. It’s actually quite dangerous. It appears like a girl was wearing stilettos with her feet on the dashboard when someone maybe slammed on the brakes a little too hard. Now? The windshield is busted and the stilettos are there to stay.
6) Stilettos are just trouble, really…
Apparently girls should just stick to wearing wedges, chunky heels, or flats. It appears that stilettos are really just trouble-making disasters waiting to happen. Any woman who has ever worn skinny heels knows the struggle.
7) Hope you have insurance on that
Whoever dropped their phone in the alligator enclosure is going to have to use their upgrade on their plan because they won’t be getting their old one back. I’m not gonna lie, it would have been pretty funny to see this person’s face when they lost their grip.
8) Hope they have insurance too
This laundromat is not going to be happy when they find out that someone’s contents ended up starting a dryer fire. How does this even happen? What something flammable in there? How hot does that dryer get?
9) Expensive mistake
We’re not entirely sure what the situation is here but whatever happened – a grand piano has lost its life. The piano is on wheels so we can only assume that it just slid its way right off that makeshift stage and onto to the floor.
10) Years of work – gone
This man is not a happy camper after having to chop off a very good portion of his giant beard after it got caught in an electric buffer. It must have taken him years to grow that beard and just a split second to take it all away.
11) So, takeout?
Nothing is worse than slaving away all day in the kitchen only to have it all go to waste in an instant. This poor woman dropped her gigantic pot of tomato sauce all over the floor and her friend or partner snapped a picture of her total feat. But – it looks like the cat is happy.
12) Again…more hard work. Down the drain.
Although she might have put a good amount of work into this chair, she really wasn’t paying too much attention while doing it. Once she thought she was done, she had realized her mistake and crumpled to the floor in shame.
13) He will now forever be known as…
This poor kid. He has no idea that he’s going to have a framed photo of himself in this wonderful t-shirt hanging up in his parents house for an entire year. That’s just asking for a year of a new nickname and he better hope it doesn’t stick.
14) Hope they aren’t traveling soon
Passports are stamped-full of travel memories and not to mention, they’re expensive and they’re your literal passport to explore the world! So – we can only imagine that this owner wasn’t ecstatic about coming home to find this.
15) At least there’s a few survivors?
Hopefully these bottles of wine weren’t very old or expensive because this would be a hard pill to swallow when you’re sweeping up wine and glass. On the bright side, it looks like a few bottles survived the topple.
16) Ranch down
A restaurant worker spilled a giant container of ranch dressing all over the walk-in cooler floor and it looks like a nightmare of a clean-up. We feel very sorry for the person that had to clean all of this ranchy mess up.
17) Just shoot me
This person made a grave mistake when they mistook Nair hair remover with the shampoo bottle. Now, she’s rocking that middle-aged man, George Costanza look. This poor, poor girl. At least she gets to have fun with some wigs?
18) She’s a deep sleeper
This little girl can apparently sleep through anything – like her mom inadvertently spitting sunflower seeds all over her face while she’s sleeping. It’s funny that the mom didn’t realize it was happening either until they stopped the car.
19) Now they have to pay twice
We’re not sure how it happened but this person’s luggage handle got stuck in between the turnstile. So, now – the person has to pay the fare twice just get their bag back. Not a good day. Hope they were running late to catch a flight!
20) Should have thought this through
Hey guys, great job at painting the pool that beautiful sky blue color but – what was your exit strategy here? It looks like these two have found themselves in a bit of a pickle. Next time, maybe they should use their brains.
21) Big misunderstanding
Well, they did say “ONLY” ketchup. But then the worker should have probably asked some follow-up questions. We can only hope they were eating at the restaurant instead of getting all the way home to discover this major disappointment.
22) More “hard work” wasted
I didn’t know that there was a “crisis” with the youth in Asia. This student probably had to have been a bit confused when being assigned to do a project about the youth in Asia but maybe he should have also clarified with his teacher.
Our hearts go out to these poor souls, that’s for sure. Have you had a day worse than these folks? Tell us in the comments!
H/T: Brightside