There are sooo many things that can get on people’s nerves, whether they’re common annoyances or something oddly peculiar. In both cases, there ought to be at least one other person out there suffering from a similar gray hair-inducing situation.
If you’re dealing with something frustrating or simply having one of those days when everything and everyone around annoys you, you’re not alone. We have gathered some images of people encountering all sorts of situations that can only be described as tests of one’s patience; so scroll down to find them and—hopefully—find comfort in the fact that they too shall pass.
#1 After Eating Two Of These Blueberry Waffles, I Went To Heat Up Two More And Saw That The Package Was For Plain Waffles. I Ate Mold
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#2 My Zara Basic T-Shirt After One Wash
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#3 I Was Just Trying To Get Some Ice Cream
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#4 This Is 4 Plates, The Rest Is “Preferences” And A Few Allergies. Wow
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#5 Guess How Old My Son Is
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#6 10-Minute Walk And I End Up Covered In About 40 Ticks
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#7 Wanted To Make A PB&J
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#8 The Amount Of Bread We Throw Away Sometimes At A Supermarket
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#9 Left-Handed People Know The Pain
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#10 My Dishwasher In My New Apartment Only Opens This Far Before Hitting The Oven
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#11 Wake Up At 7 AM, Head To Class In The Freezing Rain, Just To See “Class Is Canceled” Written On The Whiteboard And The Door Locked. No Email Or Anything First
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#12 Just Getting Ready To Cook Valentine’s Day Dinner And Opened The Block Of Cheese I Bought Today
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#13 Poison Ivy Between My Fingers. I’m Considering Amputation At This Point
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#14 This Loaf Of Bread From Walmart Doesn’t Have Any Bread In It
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#15 Ring Pull Broke. Then The Can Opener Broke
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#16 Was Going On A Family Cruise Trip. Flight Got Delayed From 4:30 To 6:50. Flight Got Delayed From 6:50 To 9. Flight Got Delayed From 9 To 11:30. Flight Got Canceled
Now we missed the cruise and waited at the airport for 7 hours for nothing.
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#17 What’s The Point Of Making An Appointment To See A Doctor But Still Waiting 1 Hour Later
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#18 How My Girlfriend Gets To Sleep vs. How I Get To Sleep With The New Foster Dog
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#19 Every Single Pair Of Jeans I Own Gets This Hole In The Crotch After Not Even 9 Months Of Use
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#20 One Of The Drawers At My Doctor’s Office That Always Annoys Me
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#21 3rd Straw Down And Still Not Finished With My Smoothie
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#22 Was Suspicious Of My “5 Lb” Plate Set
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#23 The View Of The Stage At My Concert
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#24 Every Train Has Been Canceled Or Delayed Over The Past Two Weeks, Now All Trains And Buses Are Canceled, Leaving Me With No Way Home
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#25 I Received This As A Grade For A Quiz
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#26 Bought New Dinner Plates, Guess You Need To Always Read The Back First
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#27 This Glove I Put On At Work Before Going Into Surgery Had Dozens Of Pin-Prick Holes In The Fingers. The Entire Box Was Like This
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#28 My Tap Water Suddenly Turned Brown In The Middle Of A Shower. How Do I Even Finish Showering At This Point?
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#29 Microsoft Won’t Accept My First Name
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#30 God Hit Up For A Tip On The Self-Checkout Kiosk. Who Am I Tipping, Myself?
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#31 My Bank’s Support Bot (Mandatory Before Being In Contact With A Real Human)
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#32 My Parents Live In A Rural Area, This Is The Only Grocery Store For About 20 Miles. They Charge About Double And Most People Spend It Because They Have No Other Choice
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#33 This
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#34 When Your Sock Falls Into Your Shoe
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#35 When This Happens
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#36 When The Material Gets Stuck In The Zipper
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#37 When Pencil Erasers Are Just For Decoration
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#38 My Key Broke
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#39 I Reached For This Fry Like Three Times. It’s Printed On The Paper. Thanks, Whataburger
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#40 First Day Back From Maternity Leave
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#41 My “Genuine Leather” Calvin Klein Belt. Got Home, Tore Off The Tag Which Peeled Back The Plastic Coating Revealing The Rubber Core
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#42 I Need 15
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#43 My Samsung Un55h6350 Purchased In 2019 Is No Longer Compatible With Apps Like Hulu (The Only Thing It Is Used For)
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#44 Stuck In An Elevator Right Now
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#45 After You Cross The Road In Some American Cities, You Get This… No Sidewalk On The Other Side. Why
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#46 It Was Supposed To Be Cream-Filled
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#47 Why Does My Shoe’s Tongue Keep Doing This?
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#48 Ordered From Instacart For The First Time And This Is How The Chicken Came
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#49 The Way These Laundry Baskets Break
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#50 I Have A 360° Swirl In My Beard That Makes It Almost Impossible To Get A Perfect Shave
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#51 Disney+ With A 36% Price Increase
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#52 About Half Of This 50-Gallon Trash Can Is Full Of Perfectly Good Cartons Of Milk. Expiration Date Is In 2 Weeks. Schools Waste A Lot Of Food
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#53 The Difference In Length For Baby Boy Shorts vs. Baby Girl Shorts. Both Size 1
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#54 Netflix’s New Anti-Password Sharing Rules Have Taken Effect
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#55 Found This In My Take-Out From My Favorite Chinese Restaurant
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#56 I Ordered A Terracotta Pot From IKEA. “Just Toss It All In A Big Box And Hope The Best”
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#57 I Don’t Know What’s More Infuriating, My Whole Room Burning Down And Losing Everything I Have Or This:
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#58 Found Out I’m Allergic To Mosquitos. As If They Weren’t Infuriating Enough
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#59 Does Anyone Else Find A Wet Sleeve Infuriating? It Constantly Reminds You Of Its Presence
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#60 Spending A Week At A 4-Star Hotel For Work. Found A Bed Bug On My Pillow On The Second Night
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#61 When You’re Enjoying A Bite To Eat And End Up Frantically Googling About Cordyceps
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#62 I Didn’t Check The Oven Before Preheating Last Night
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#63 After An Annoying And Frustrating Day I Thought I Heard A Car Crash Outside, Nope Can Exploded
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#64 Couldn’t See Right Out Of My Contact And My Eye Was Irritated All Day. Came Home And It Turns Out There Was A Tiny Hole In The Middle Of It
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#65 Spent An Hour Perfectly Roasting This Potato For Dinner, Only To Cut It Open And Find This
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#66 Plastic Packaging. Every Single Time
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#67 This Command Strip
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#68 So I Just Bought This Chair And None Of The Reviews Mentioned This
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#69 My Candy Did Not Fall
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#70 When The Lid Falls Off The Salt Grinder Onto Your Breakfast
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#71 When Foil Does This
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#72 Sigh. There’s Always A Missing Piece
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#73 Two Pieces Of Toast, Made In The Same Toaster For The Same Amount Of Time
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#74 This Banana Is So Straight, It Will Not Fit Into My Banana Box
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#75 Guess Who Woke Up Well-Rested Today
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#76 Power Went Out 20 Minutes Into Oppenheimer. Waited About An Hour For It To Be Restored
And movie restarted, only for the movie to restart again automatically at the next show time and being kicked out of the theater. Didn’t get to see the last 30 minutes or so.
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#77 My Roof Has Been Shot With An Arrow
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#78 Our Dark Towels Always Eventually Get These “Bleach Spots”. Despite The Fact That We Don’t Use Bleach In Our Laundry At All And None Of Our Clothes Get These Spots
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#79 The Bacon In Our HelloFresh Box This Week
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#80 My Husband And I Have Been Looking At This For 10 Minutes. Where’s Zebra
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#81 My Little Brother’s Middle School Schedule. He’s Having Such A Hard Time Remembering When Periods Start And End. Why Are The Times This Specific?
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#82 Bought A 12-Pack Of Dove Soap, They All Came Out Like This
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#83 After Months Of Saving Money For A New Guitar, All That Money Will Have To Be Spent On A New Pair Of Glasses Instead
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#84 What The Hell Is This? Every Single One
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#85 Great Value Sliced Cheese Changed The Formula And No Longer Melts For Me. This Was After 2 Minutes In The Microwave
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#86 My Workplace Installed These Toilet Paper Dispensers That Crumple Up The Paper And Only Dispense One Square At A Time
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#87 The Drop-Off Line Is In Front Of My School. The First Hour Starts In Three Minutes
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#88 This Bread Costs $7.99 For A Half-Loaf
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#89 This Screen At My School
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#90 What Is In My Pop Tart
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#91 This
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#92 Bought 1 Kilogram Of Chicken Nuggets. Took One Bite, They All Look Like This
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#93 This A “Medium” Burger At 110 Grill
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#94 My Seat Belt Created A Worn-Looking Sash Across My New Jumper The First Time I Wore It Today
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#95 Starburst 27.50 Oz Bag Ratio
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#96 My Parents Are Staying In A Hotel That Promised To Serve Them Breakfast During Their Stay. This Is The Breakfast They Were Given
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#97 The Way Home Depot Cuts Wood
The infuriating part is that this is wood for finish work and they only sell it in linear feet, so you have to have them cut it.
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#98 Salmon Stuck To My New $200 Non-Stick Pan
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#99 At Work, I Wondered Why I Felt A Draft Down There. My Favorite Jeans Have Given Up The Ghost
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#100 Just Broke The Sugar Dish That’s Been In My Family For 4 Generations
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#101 This Minor Setback Amuses And Infuriates Me
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#102 Worst Garlic Bread Ever
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#103 My W Key Is Permanently Stuck Down And It’s Super Annoying
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#104 It Was Already The End Of A Long And Annoying 10-Hour Drive, Yet Life Wasn’t Quite Irritating Enough
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#105 Things In My House That Annoy Me
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#106 Paper Lid On The Spice Container Is Annoying
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#107 Sticker On My Laptop, It’s Not An Actual Fold. I Always Try To Unfold It Every Single Time Only To Be Irritated
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#108 When The Shower Curtain Does This, It Makes Me Unreasonably Angry. How Do You Stop This
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#109 Am I The Only One Who Gets So Annoyed When This Happens? Two Eggs From The Same Box, Boiled In The Same Water And This Is The Result
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#110 When Shoes Do This
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#111 When This Stuff Happens
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#112 The Stuff That Gets Left Behind When You Peel A Sticker
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#113 Just Spent $70 On A Nice Bottle Of Wine And This Happened
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#114 So This Just Happened. Sigh
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#115 Those Pieces Of Eggshell
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#116 I Tried To Take A Banana Off The Bunch And Opened Up The 3 Others
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#117 I Dropped My Debit Card, And It Went Straight Into The Tiny Opening Of The Parking Brake
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#118 P Is For
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#119 I Wanted To Grab Some Tape To Wrap A Present And The Bottom Just Fell Out. Looks Interesting Tho
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#120 I Love Our New House… Except For This
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#121 Taxes Are So Infuriating. I Work Two Jobs And Had A Refund Of $2k Last Year. Still Have The Same Jobs And Nothing’s Changed, But Now This Year The Refund Is $33
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#122 Every Time I Update My Computer It Changes My Browser From Google To Something Random, It’s Rarely The Same Thing Twice
It always takes me 5 hours to switch back. By far the most irritating thing in my life right now, every time it happens it’s like hitting my shin on the corner.
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#123 My Daughter Got This For Her Birthday. Very Mildly Infuriating Indeed
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#124 Can’t Imagine How Irritating This Must Me
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#125 The Amount Of Bananas In This Pack Of Shrimps And Bananas
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#126 When The Butter Doesn’t Spread
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#127 As I Was Driving In Heavy Traffic In Unfamiliar Territory, Microsoft Sync Performed An Update, Shutting Down My GPS
Thankfully it only took a few minutes but, damn, it was annoying. Lost my destination and had to pull over to re-enter (the system won’t allow data to be entered while driving). 2012 Lincoln MKX.
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#128 When Your Fork Falls Into The Sauce
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