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Employees have to deal with a lot of ridiculous customer demands that make work frustrating, but sometimes people just want something really weird. Paint and hardware stores specifically will have people walking in nonstop with random objects whose color struck them as something they would want all over their walls for the foreseeable future. This extends to soap, dirt, melons and body parts.

There's a certain feeling you get when something is stacked just right or matches up oh so perfectly. Maybe it's because the world is chaotic and confusing and we find pleasure in some semblance of order. Maybe it's just some intangible aesthetically pleasing thing to see such clean lines in real life. Either way it makes people feel satisfied to see images of graceful perfection. And on the other end, oh man is it blood-boiling and frustrating to see imperfect things.

Here are moments of matching stuff, duplicates, patterns and other strangeness that looks like we're living in a simulation. It's like the programmer of life ran out of ideas. For some more evidence that we're living in a crappy program, here are some stories of real-life glitches people experienced.

Either the universe is running out of ideas, or various clothing and upholstery companies are running out of designs and fabrics. Here are times people matched not only the landscape around them, but walls, couches and random crap like markers and bottles. It's a fun time. For more funny outfit similarities, here are some times we had to ask "who wore it better?"