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Someone on AskReddit kickstarted a thread about people's most costly mistakes. Some mistakes have a knack for wiping out the wallet, depleting all the funds, and ultimately teaching folks very expensive lessons. But sometimes, there's no lesson to be learned. It was just an honest accident. 

This woman found herself in quite the series of fails, after trying to have some groceries delivered. It sounds like just about everything that could've gone awry, did. She accidentally flashed the driver, wiped out after her back went out, and pissed off her cat. Hopefully she tipped the delivery driver extra for offering to help her up. Not a typical day on the job for that driver, at all. 

A recent Twitter thread inspired people to share those times of failure when they followed instructions literally, and then failures resulted. Communication can be a tricky thing. Just cause you're asking someone to do something in a way that makes sense to you, doesn't mean that the recipient of the instructions won't interpret your intention completely differently. And from there, we have a wonderful collection of fails. 

It only dawned on this group that they might have the wrong number when their friend mentioned that he felt lonely and wondered why no one texted him. Turns out they'd been texting a foulmouthed total stranger the whole time. For a wholesome mistake that went on way too long, here's a story of a woman who mistakenly thought a random office was a dog daycare for months.

In this weirdly wholesome story, a woman dropped her dog off at a dog friendly office, and her dog was so nice that the employees didn't bother to correct her. You could also say "years ago, this person operated an illegal dog sitting business" but where's the fun in that. For some wholesome dogness, here are tired dogs in awkward sleeping positions.

As long as there are people, there will be people who act and say things without thinking. Some of these moments are human and understandable. Others are in their own league of disappointing facepalm. Since people will never not be dumb, all we can do is take the laughs when we can get them and watch attempts hit the ground with the sound of failure.

Misfortune and failure is primed to strike at any moment. The ways it can hit are often cartoonish, like a melting ice cream cake or an exploding glass coffee table. Sure we can be careful, watch our steps and keep our noses clean, but that still won't stop chaos and its friends from entering our lives.

Sometimes life will hit you in a way where you get launched into an out of body experience. Maybe you get a huge shock, or experience something so out of the ordinary that reality comes crashing down in an instant. Life will just throw those moments of chaos, failure and misfortune that make it unpredictable. 

We wish, for the general state of things, that people were better at thinking. Since that will never change, all we can really do in lieu of that is laugh at the funnier moments of pure facepalm life has to offer. The sheer number of disappointing moments of facepalm is absolutely daunting.

Almost everyone would rather be relaxing at home than having to do any of this annoying "paying your bills" bullcrap, but as dark as some things can seem on Monday morning, they could certainly be worse. Misfortune Monday lets you see people dealing with the fallout of chaos and failure and serves as a good reminder that maybe things are going alright.

The London Review Bookshop was intrigued to discover that they were one of the dates for an upcoming tour by Rage Against the Machine. It was an obvious mistake, but it also kind of made people think about the logistics of having a Rage concert in a bookstore.

The anonymity of the internet allows a lot of people to pretend to be experts on things, as well as pass massive judgement and throw accusations around like a furious ape tosses fresh hot crap. Here are times that people were sorely mistaken and didn't realize they were talking to someone who knew a hell of a lot more then they did. Sometimes these end decently, like when the writer of Men in Black was told not to mansplain Men in Black.

In a noble move, this guy's pregnant wife wants to name their child after her grandfather. The problem is, that kid's name would end up being John Doe. The internet found that burdening your kid with the name they give to unidentified bodies sounds like a bad idea. Here are some other horrible names people have encountered.

Your can never be too sure what kind of chaos and failure life will bring you. There are insane snowdrifts that bury your car, people driving through concrete, ruined art projects and dogs chewing through doors. Life is an artist and chaos and misfortune are its implements.

Every once in a while the wild Karen will mistake a stranger for an employee and direct their abuse at a fellow customer. while that doesn't sound like much of an improvement, the lack of professional courtesy frees up their target to say whatever they want to back. The extra level of dramatic irony makes stories like these all the sweeter.

Life has its unfair share of unfortunate failures and moments of chaos. Things break, things get stuck, things melt and things explode. Knowing that, you just kinda have to take everything in stride. Wherever you go, chaos and misfortune will follow.