The one thing that makes you feel dumber than making a stupid mistake is when you make that mistake for a seriously long time. In this case, this person found some "snacks" they liked, and since the packaging wasn't obvious, they bought it again and again. A lot of people realize obvious things too late, but that doesn't make it much less embarrassing.
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Just when you think people are basically good at things, you get hit with some facepalm moments from the dimmest bulbs. Sure, it's a little disappointing to see someone call a sunrise a "morning sunset" but at the same time it at least makes you feel a little better about yourself. These incompetent moments of classic facepalm can act as medicine for the soul.
Sometimes it would take too much effort to do something the right way, so we resort to stunningly unprofessional "not my job" moments. We can't say we're proud of them, but boy do they save a whole lot of time. Sometimes it's actually harder to do it wrong. As long as there are annoying bosses and Friday afternoons, we'll have wonderfully incompetent "not my job" moments.
Come to think of it, small mistakes like the continuously changing shape of a sign in a cartoon were always slightly annoying. Who'd think that some day literally thousands of people would devote their attention to these kind of subtle animation errors? Nobody pretends that cartoon logic always makes sense, but it is fun to point out.
Life manages to produce an unpredictable and wide variety of unforeseen chaos that we just kind of have to deal with. Sometimes it's as arbitrary as having your mailbox exploded by lightning, and sometimes it's as small and disheartening as realizing you just tried pouring something into an upside down glass. Life has its messes large and small.
People are people and we make mistakes. Here's a dude who thought he was applying to a job in his own city, but low and behold, the listing was extremely easy to misread. For some more mix-ups, here's a guy who thought a date was a job interview and here's a woman who thought an office was a dog sitting company for months.
Life is just a series of attempts. Sometimes you're just trying to make a decent sign, make dinner or take an artistic picture. Sometimes chaos gets in the way and these various attempts dive into a pool of failure. No matter how hard you try, some attempts will hit the ground with the sound of failure.
People are absolutely terrific at doing stupid things. Whether it's eating 17 donuts, climbing through a bunch of poison ivy, or eating the hottest chicken sandwich ever, you can bet that people will do real dumb junk just to prove it to themselves. Here are more people's dumbest high risk, low reward moments.
You never know when messes large and small can present themselves and wreak havoc upon your life. Your car could get eaten up by a sinkhole, you could accidentally leave a whole book in your washing machine, or you could get your keys stuck in your teeth. It's a decent reminder that uneventful days aren't bad days.
Quality control at a restaurant isn't something a whole lot of people think about. If you're buying a burger, your thought process is probably a version of "I will buy the burger and eat the burger." But finding something like a bolt, or an animal, or worse, half an animal, in your food is enough to ruin your day. Sometimes people are just dumb like the time Chipotle had to field complaints about people finding bayleaves in their food. People will eat some pretty bonkers cursed foods, like this guy who gave himself food poisoning to win an argument.
If you've felt like you've done a bad job with something before, don't feel bad, cause someone has most likely done worse. You probably didn't include an inconspicuous "shart" in a sign, and you probably haven't buried a fire hydrant in cement. There are too many impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments and sloppy design fails out there to even compete.
We've all witnessed some majestically unprofessional "not my job" moments. Maybe someone at work was running out of time, money or patience and just went with what they had. Those moments can result in stairways to nowhere, cans of peaches that magically contain peas, and countless other mistakes resulting in people and things failing at their one job.
Misfortune can arise at any time, and in way too many flavors. It could be something as simple as ruined concrete or something as spectacular as a spilled truckload of herring. Also goose attacks. You can never forget about goose attacks. Wherever there are people, there are unfortunate moments of failure and chaos.
Maybe you didn't get enough sleep or maybe you were just on autopilot. There are a lot of reasons to make extremely simple, stupid mistakes that make you look like a complete idiot to strangers. It can even happen when you literally forget what you are holding in each hand and end up throwing a cup of hot coffee on your bed.
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We'll admit that the first one here is arguably a BS technicality on pronunciation. That said, the next two are some bummers. He even had the million and the car, and it just slipped away. You can see it in his eyes.
If you're a perfectionist, then it might feel like a relief that people out here are doing such unprofessional jobs of just about everything. That, or it just makes you fear for a world that's at the whims of such majestic incompetence. However you feel about it, there are still people installing utility poles in the middle of streets and designing confusing and unusable stuff every day.
