rules

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. 

These mother-lovers are out here breaking the rules like the mild-mannered citizens they are.

When you spend a lot of time around a small group of people, you start to develop...shall we say, eccentricities?

Rules were meant to be broken. And these people found a way to break very minor rules without causing any real social disturbance. Good for them.

You either miss out on free handouts or potentially unsanitary madness, when someone has their last day on the job. Either way, it would seem these fed up and newly freed employees are living their best lives. What would you do on your last day, at your present job? 

You might find that you yourself believed some of these dumb things for a while, or even to this day. But hopefully not the bear one. The bear one is just plain dumb.

I get it, your house is your own private space and whatever rules you believe in apply inside. Sure, that's reasonable. Don't like me to swear inside your house? I won't. Don't want me to wear shoes inside your house? I'll leave them outside. But some of the things in these stories from Redditors are way beyond reasonable requests. I get that it's your house and children can be messy sometimes but... whoa. Take a chill pill and relax. Read on for some extremely weird and hilarious house rules some poor kids had to live with. 

Somebody stop these animals!

If sometimes it seems like management is out to get you, they are. These rules are absolutely ridiculous.