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We're all prone to spontaneous fits of nostalgia where we find ourselves mentally entrenched in reliving the days of our youth. You know, the days when you could fearlessly stomp around your home, and then be humbled by the profound pain of a LEGO block that decided to implant itself in your foot? These nostalgic memes are sure to strike some chords. Check out some more nostalgic memes for the 80s and 90s kids over here. 

Tyrannical managers, dull coworkers and entitled customers. That's what anyone who's worked retail will tell you is their experience, day in, day out. Many of us will work in a store or restaurant at some point, and there's not much to do but battle through the daily grind and look at retail memes to dull the pain. For a fun story, here's an entitled customer who expected a store to stay open late just for them.

The more you get to know people, the more you realize it's the smallest things that often make us the most upset. Car got totaled? Too bad, gotta move on. Someone took your designated parking spot? This cannot stand. We all have our preferences, things that get under our skin, and petty things we're extremely passionate about.

To be a parent is to be subjected to a continual emotional rollercoaster, as you work on raising your devilish children into reasonably functional adults. The toddler phase especially is marked by a steady procession of spontaneous, and absolutely explosive emotional meltdowns. You never know what bone a toddler will have to pick with the world. Every day brings with it a new internal struggle in the life of a toddler. These toddler breakdowns are certainly something else. 

Introverted Twitter users are banding together to share their best lot of painfully dumb questions that they're just plain old tired of being asked. For people that already need time to recharge, these kinds of questions are especially excruciating. 

Sometimes Twitter actually delivers. 

Sometimes you don't even need the world to humble you. Sometimes, you can just do the job yourself. These folks found themselves in the middle of various, hilarious, and occasionally relatable situations where they realized that they weren't near as smart as they'd made themselves out to be. A little ego death here and there can be good for everyone. 

Society has a frustrating knack for creating all kinds of unrealistic standards that it expects its members to live by. In this case, we have a Tumblr user calling out society's outdated and illogical standards about how people should handle their love lives. Some folks are actually just completely at peace with not sharing their life with someone else. It's on the rest of their fellow human beings to recognize that happiness and not question it as if something's out of place. 

If you've ever found someone special to share some time with in this mad world, you've likely participated in carrying on some hilariously dumb but highly addictive bit with your partner. You probably had no idea why you were doing it, and why it was so funny without fail every time, but you continued to do with admirable, stubborn persistence. 

There's no denying that times were just simpler when we were kids. Some of the biggest things we had to worry about back in the day were minor homework assignments, or just getting to class on time. As you grow older though, the whole world seems to become infinitely more complex and prone to an infuriating, endless procession of problems. These tweets certainly do a solid job at portraying the emotional rollercoaster that is adulthood. 

Pretty much all of us have that one memorable line from the strange days of high school that we can recall on a dime. It could be something like how if all your friends were to hypothetically jump off a bridge, you shouldn't too. Certainly a vivid way of encouraging people to not just do whatever everyone else is doing around them. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the most impressively dumb things people did that inspired them to question their own intelligence. Sometimes you lead a life where you worked 10 years in a kitchen, and still end up trying to microwave a saucepan. Or maybe you find yourself mindlessly blaring your car horn at the guy who you already knew was deaf, but somehow forgot because your brain decided to take a catnap. We've all been there caught up in the middle of an impressively mindless moment, at some point in our lives. 

No can be a complete sentence. This informative Tumblr thread does a deep dive on the differences between "Ask Culture" and "Guess Culture." At the very least, it'd be nice if some folks read this and are able to learn a helpful thing or two about being a more functional communicator. It can give someone who has a hard time saying no all kinds of anxiety if you continue to ask and ask, and guilt trip on top of that. Learning to accept a "no" right off the bat, is a crucial thing in life. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with these cooks that bonded over dysfunctional family members.

You wouldn't want to find yourself stuck with some of these walks of life. On the other hand, we've got some other roommate stories in this thread that sound like an absolute pleasure to live with. The whole roommate thing can be a wild gamble. Sometimes, you end up learning that you're living with a total waking nightmare far too late in the game. From there, the best course of action can be to just uproot and move on out. Some folks are truly unbearable to live with. Check out some more juicy roommate content with this guy who outwitted his roommate using the pavlovian method. Talk about a brilliant method. 

What's normal to one country's locals might be looked on as nothing but pure madness to the rest of the world. Traditions are weird like that. Sometimes we'll grow up thinking that our family traditions were nothing outside the ordinary, only to go on to realize that they were truly bizarre. Like having the kids go out to play in a frozen tundra that is well below 0 degrees.