Victor Robles of the Washington Nationals was out there turning heads due to the presence of his unanticipated teammate. It must've been that lucky Praying Mantis' best day living on this crazy planet. And don't even get me started about the good luck that a Praying Mantis could bring to a baseball team on the hunt for a win.
Many of us have found ourselves behind other customers in line at the local McDonald's that just insist on making the rest of us wait up for their extra demands. Sometimes, it's totally called. Other times, it's just a tad bit infuriating. TikToker @kiwipanda69 who happens to work at McDonald's shows how they went ahead and handled their customer requesting fresh fries.
It's not uncommon for customers to find themselves on the wrong ends of their own "fairness" tantrums, like this guy who asked for no ice and got less than that or this one pound cake Karen who was furious for getting what she wanted. At the same time, Kudos to managers who aren't gonna put up with all the nonsense, like this manager who went full throttle on a customer who demanded hotter coffee.
The right rare insult just hits different from one of the many painfully overused insults that are otherwise thrown around like there's no tomorrow. There's just an innate appreciation that comes from reading an insult that you've never read before. Also, kudos to anyone who manages to successfully employ an insult that doesn't rely on profanity to make more of an impact. Check out some of those fun ones over here.
Nobody wants to have to deal with city officials giving them trouble over something that absolutely doesn't warrant any trouble to be dished out in the first place. It sounds like Carl is just one of those wonderful human beings who fights back against the BS by unleashing nothing short of a wildly petty revenge. In this case, the revenge ended up involving a decent number of folks benefiting from having a spontaneous little bar "in the park" being set up. To keep the pro revenge drama going check out this revenge tale about a tenant getting their property owner's car towed, so the property owner went ahead and hatched a sweet pro revenge.
We are at heart, boring people. We live our boring lives, eat mostly grey food, and complain about the drama in our pets lives as if they were people. That's why we need funny tweets and tumblr gems to quote later. There's no sense letting people find out you're boring right away. That's for after you've tricked them into hanging out. So eat up them tumblr gems and funny tweets to have something to talk about.
No one is gonna tell a kid fighting a horrible illness that they can't go tour a pickle factory, and people can be pretty accommodating for special cases. Kids, being kids, have some interesting personalities and given the opportunity will make strange demands. Some of them are a little self-defeating, but they definitely don't lack creativity. Here are some wholesome moments that prove people are pretty alright.
What is it about funny signs that make them so compelling? Is it the folksiness? Maybe the commitment to the bit? Whatever it is, it hits even harder when it's on the side of a septic tank truck. Call us childish or whatever, but man these are great. For those who are into sign humor, there's this sign with a pun game that's way too on point or this restaurant sign that dispenses jokes and wisdom.
Honestly, we're all for a show that's just like Shark Tank but dedicated to airing out people's absolute most mindless entrepreneurial ideas. Many of us have been claimed victim by our own moments of blinding excitement when we think that we've grasped the world's next big thing. Hopefully, you don't find any of your own ideas lingering around in this list.
Let there be no confusion over the fact that kids are stupid. But at the same time, we only believed those stupid things because adults told us those wrong things as jokes, or they didn't know themselves. And at least there's some kind of logic to them, even if they're completely flawed. As a result, there are people out there who didn't realize painfully obvious things for far too long. Well, there's always time for learning.
Unfortunately, far too many of us can fall into the vicious mental cycle of drawing all kinds of nasty assumptions about people we've never met, because there are plenty of difficult human beings out there. Well, the thing is that there also a whole lot of other folks that just want to help brighten people's days. Like this guy's classmate for instance. A pretty cool turn of events for these two. Yet another example that the knowledge passed on through textbooks only covers so much ground when it comes to navigating the real world with empathy and understanding.
Nothing can quite bring the blood to a boil like a wildly inconsiderate manager who insists on going so far as to play outside the bounds of literally what's legal. It sounds like this doctor was having absolutely none of it. Fortunately, "Steve" sounds like he more than learned his lesson. The world needs more instances like this, where the managers get their rightful comeuppance. For another satisfying instance of malicious compliance check out the time that a customer asked a restaurant to cut a burrito in half, so the restaurant maliciously complied.
Unfortunately, far too many of us have found ourselves in situations where we realize that we're living next to absolutely nightmarish neighbors. It sounds like this guy had his hands full with a neighbor who couldn't be bothered to respect the clear boundaries that were in place. And then, almost as if it were inevitable, the neighbor ends up crossing one of those hard lines in the sand that can't be crossed. You don't mess with someone's trees, man.
Unfortunately, the world's in no short supply of wildly entitled choosy beggars that come right out of the woodwork to stink up otherwise peaceful negotiations between buyers and sellers. Clearly, this choosy beggar fell through the cracks when it came to having a basic understanding of how charities in this world work. And then as choosy beggars so often do, this one decides to lash out with a whole lot of rudeness. No good at all, man. For another ridiculous choosy beggar case check out the time that an entitled customer threatened a tattoo parlor with a nasty review, only to end up being beat to the punch.
She didn't miss a beat when it was time to send out the warning about an imminent earthquake situation. Honestly pretty impressive work on her part.
We're fans of spatial awareness. Sometimes people have it. Sometimes people don't. In this event, these drivers were lucky that a truck full of cement was able to stop at all. The stuff actually shatters the back window of that van. If there's a lesson here, it's probably something like "if you're gonna do something stupid on the freeway, don't do it in front of a cement truck."
Let's never forget about the time that Top Gear's James May challenged the notorious Gordon Ramsay to a cooking challenge involving fish pies. Clearly, James wasn't too stressed out about the whole process. He's clearly having more fun than anyone else around. He also manages to make Gordon Ramsay laugh a whole lot. That doesn't exactly seem like the easiest feat.
Unfortunately, far too many people out there end up relying heavily on profanity to drive up the impact of their insults. It can get to be pretty unoriginal pretty quickly. So, when you come across someone who has taken the time to rework their insults so that they're in top shelf rare fashion, it just makes the whole interaction that much more entertaining. Maybe you'll end up adding some of these to your arsenal. You can also check out some more rare insults that squashed people's bulbous egos over here.
Our bosses have all asked us to do some hard things, but lying to their mistress's husband is a new one. SincerelyDedra details the story of when the masquerade came crumbling down and she was at the register, having to answer all the questions. The world of customer service always has its surprises.
One of the biggest problems with talking online is that it's impossible to decipher someone's tone, but at the same time it's also very easy to assume someone is trying to be a jackass. On top of that, we never really know when we might "crossing the line" for someone who's freakout meter is set on a hair trigger. And to fuel the flames of this situation in particular, they decided to make like a chicken sandwich themselves and double down. What started as one chicken burger/sandwich correction rolled into a multi-day snafu that had people freaking out over nothing when everyone could have just gone outside or spent time with their families. Amazing. For some more stupid drama, here's a Tumblr thread on drama in the yarn community.
This might be one of our new favorite Twitter accounts. Naturally, you can count on whatever kinds of updates are coming from the world of Jurassic Park to be completely absurd and brimming with danger. It is kind of fun to think about just what it'd be like to actually work at a place like Jurassic Park.
We all know facts that are really specific or complex just because we saw them in something as innocuous as a cereal commercial, and that's fine. It's important to get to look smart for a while. And honestly there's no harm done if people think you're good at history when really you just look at memes. Significant knowledge can be found in the most interesting places, as evidenced by this tumblr thread about how when archeologists are in doubt, they should ask craftspeople.
Anyone who has ever worked a customer service gig knows that it comes with all kinds of harrowing experiences where you're unfortunately forced to deal with people that decide it's okay to leave their moral compasses at home, before they go shopping. The amount of patience that you can be forced to exercise when working a retail job is nothing short of obscene. Hopefully these grim snapshots of customers being terrible doesn't ring any bells for you.
Most NDAs are extremely boring. Like you have to agree to not disclose that your paper company has been fraudulently selling "eggshell" colored paper as "white." Other times you learn some about some murky secrets of various industries, or abandoned projects like "General Mills tried to make a beef-based breakfast cereal" or something. But that's just a fictional example. General Mills didn't try to make a beef-based cereal. Unless they did try to do that recently and people had to sign something saying they wouldn't talk about it. Anyone up for a big bowl of Steer-ios?
There are times when we feel stupid. Maybe we forgot to put the pot under the coffee maker before turning it on. Maybe we accidentally microwaved something metal, plastic or living. But if there's one thing that makes us feel a little less stupid, it's seeing the goofs and blunders of people doing way more stupid things than us. Those facepalm moments of human moronitude may be setting humanity back a few thousand years, but they boost our self esteem for a few fleeting moments, and that's completely worth it.
It sounds like there might be some rampant communication troubles between these two. Specifically, the fact that Seth completely disregarded his girlfriend's very clear desire to get a new purse and not a new bikini is just a bit troubling. And then when his girlfriend yet again expressed to him that she definitely didn't want the new bikini, he insisted on calling her a spoiled brat. That was not the way, Seth. Not the way at all.
This guy sounds like he was an absolute, inconsiderate, irrationally aggressive individual right from the very get go. Like, the employee repeatedly tried to dissuade him from purchasing the insanely salty licorice and he just wasn't having any of it. Well, he certainly lived to regret that stance. Also though, shout out to the manager for putting the salty old geezer in his place. For another tale of malicious compliance check out the time that a grandpa's mailbox loophole took the mail into the third dimension.
Unfortunately, the world's in no short supply of people that are more than ready to spew their blatant lies. Especially when it comes to the wild west that is social media. You've probably already experienced your fair share of having to deal with total BS clogging up one of your social media feeds. Maybe these people's stories about the most obvious lies they were ever told will remind you of your own unforgettable encounters with grade A BS.
No one said life was easy. But at the same time, no one said you could get T-Boned by a clown car. Misfortune just keeps happening. Every backed up egg sorting machine and decimated toilet gets us one step closer to our breaking point, but for some reason, our breaking point also seems tauntingly out of reach. Here we are, having to accept that life is just like this, every other Misfortune Monday.
What in the world would people do without IT? Seriously. Just take the guy that we have in this humorous tech support tale. For whatever reason he was leading a life where he assumed that flames erupting from his computer were a totally normal and acceptable function of the device. Well, it sounds like even after the IT dude showed up to smooth over the issue, the guy still left the interaction puzzled by why there wasn't a "stop the smoke" button. For another tech support tale check out the time that a man assumed his computer would work during a power outage.
