rules

Depending on where you live, an active Homeowner's Association can be filled with some of the most boring, cruel and power hungry people you've ever met. Their draconian rules can suck the life out of your own living situation and you can be punished for something as simple as where you choose to store your garbage bins. So here's an interesting strategy to combat their rules. And for more, here's someone who got revenge when the HOA tried to remove their trampoline.

If you've worked for a place that cut every corner possible, so most businesses, you've probably ended up complying with some hell boss's stupid policy or ended up doing some irresponsible or unsafe junk that goes against your actual work guidelines. This person decided to actually follow the rules, and became hated by their crappy boss. Here's one about a boss that tried to get all Alpha and it didn't work out.

Stupidity is one of the only attributes we can trust people to have consistently. Because of this, we have to get extra explicit when it comes to labels and laws. Stuff like, "please don't put salt in eyes" and junk like that. In a similar vein, here are some jobs that only exist because people are dumb. And for some extra scary warnings, here are spooky signs that are doing their job too well.

It's the natural development of almost every kid that you think your home life is pretty standard until you visit a friend's house or live with someone else. People just believe dumb things as kids. Some some folks realize how good they had it while others just have more questions about their strange parents. Other times rules were just creatively pragmatic.

For whatever reason, almost every printing policy is stupid. Whether you work somewhere with one, or go to school, there's always some sort of wast-of-money plan that never seems to work out in your favor. There's even another dude who complied with his school's unfair printing fee by using every printer at once.

Whether it was the pain of a broken foot, the unionization or the fact that it was their last month on the job, this employee found the courage to stand up to their unfair boss. Feels good to see someone get some justice out of an unsympathetic manager. Retail can be a surreal world, like the funny and weird story of this guy who never got told to do anything and still stayed on for months.

Maybe you broke the rules by having your phone out or smuggling in the "dreaded gum". These folks went above and beyond with weird crap that has no business being at a school. There's always that one kid who has like a toaster or something. Speaking of school rules, here are some salty folks who shared what was banned from their schools.

Life is full of people saying one thing and doing another thing. It's probably one of the most frustrating things about other people. This frustration was felt hard in this Askreddit post asking about the world's many double standards. So drink in the hypocrisy and try not to freak out about all this got-damn BS we all have to deal with every day.

You've gotta hand it to these folks for following the rules as literally as possible. Maybe they weren't followed just as they were intended, but the irony is worth it. For people who broke the rules in their own special way, here are some first-world anarchists.

As you get older, it becomes more and more clear that your parents didn't really know what they were doing. Some lies were rooted in real concerns our parents had for us. Some were just hearsay. And in some cases, they were just trying to make fun of us. Thank God we have Google to undo what our parents did to us. Anyway if these made you have flashbacks, here's some more lies parents told their kids.

When the world told these people, animals, and things to not do things, they did them, by gum. Not necessarily enough to get themselves in trouble, but more just for the thrill of breaking the rules. If you wanna see more people break the world in a way that it can be easily repaired by tomorrow, then here's more.

You don't know what you have until one idiot does something stupid and unprecedented that changes the rules for everyone. Whether it's why you can't see the guts of a McDonalds anymore, or why you can't wear your favorite pants to work. Sometimes rules even exist because someone did something so unthinkably dumb that they had to make up a new category, just for that one jackass. And sometimes new rules don't even work.

Do you keep waving people in at a stop sign even though you have the right of way? Quit it. You should be predictable, not nice. Do you cut off faster drivers trying to merge? What's that all about? Here are some things dumbasses seem to forget about while driving.

Rules were made to be broken! As long as no one is around to enforce them and no one gets hurt.

You've got to get real specific when it comes to rules unless you want to deal with people finding ALL the loopholes. Outside of that, sometimes you end up confronting an entirely avoidable scenario that only came about because you told someone not to do the thing. See Prohibition era.