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Here's a good reminder that it's good to have a purpose. Whatever it is, whether it's painting, writing stories, or deliberately disrupting your lawn in order to piss off your annoying neighbor, it's the small things in life that really make it enjoyable. Small but effective acts of defiance, like this guy who battled his work tie policy, help us get through the day.

We're always looking for ways to burn bridges, but this way seems a bit nuclear. That's a pretty sure-fire way to never have to worry about being invited back. Can we give him a break because he was like seven? Yeah, probably. 

Well, when you can't treat people like human beings, you end up leaving looking like carrot top. This hairstylist even went above and beyond having to deal with this lady's demands! For another satisfying customer service story, here's a cashier who lives out the retail dream by telling off a Karen and living.

We get a kick out of people being petty like this guy who uses his imperfect lawn to drive his mean neighbor insane, but we've never seen someone cause family drama with the act of pitching a red onion as far as they could. To be fair to him, they already had some cut onions, but to be fair to her, it is just an onion.

Gotta admit, had me in the first half. We're all for clever tinder attempts like this guy's send nudes sonnet, but how many times do you have to try this on tinder before the person actually gets what's happening and plays along? It's a bold strategy and it looks like if it works it really works and if it doesn't it REALLY doesn't.

A moment like this has gotta make you feel like a real embarrassed piece of garbage. This guy's heart was in the right place, but his debit card was in a garbage can miles away. Hopefully he'll be able to escape his zone of shame and go outside one day, but hot damn.

Editor Gideon Lichfield offered a wonderfully ironic complaint in regards to an article about the conformity of nonconformists. We couldn't have asked for some more solid irony. Are hipsters even still a thing? It's been like forever.

Holy crap, how do you even get in a situation like this? We've seen people want to disown their sister, but this is an even bigger piece of family drama. And what are you gonna do? Send your step-daughter to prison? Is that even the right thing to do? Defrauding your parents into debt is a terrible move, but how many lives do you wanna ruin here? All in all, this isn't a fun situation to be in.

Rob Sheridan used to be the art director for the Nine Inch Nails. Among the shenanigans and prankery that goes on during tours, he decided to get one over on their tour manager who took the thing waaaay too seriously. So seriously in fact that they never actually told the guy about it.

Sometimes we get bogged down with the idea of "completely destroying" the people who have wronged you with some impressively satisfying act of nuclear revenge, but like they say "living well is the best revenge." This guy's petty move at the end there is a nice touch too.

People can be very particular, selfish creatures. Sometimes we think we'll be good with someone before realizing that our other quirks will get on their nerves so terribly that they never want to see us again. Some reasons are overly petty, some malicious, and some outright bizarre. Some people outright try to screw over their Ex. Lawyers, legal assistants and other people have collected some real weird reasons some folks had to get a divorce.

Nothing breaks the ice like telling a complete stranger that you've been watching them forever. It's not something you can't do, but there are probably more graceful ways of going about it. Being good with strangers is a skill that many of us don't have, like this awkward cafe customer.

First of all, let's not deny that this is actually incredible. Usually people ask if they're jerks over something like their disowning their sister for marrying their bully, but damn, 3 feet of sub? Eating over half of a sandwich the height of a man is a tremendous feat that many of us wish we were capable of. That said, eating that much of a sandwich intended to feed a whole party is definitely a selfish move. He was sort of measured about his approach, but that wasn't enough to cover the fact that a whole lot of sandwich went missing.

Here's Tumblr going in on the wondrous life of Gotz von Berlichingen. If only we could all be so lucky to live a life as fruitful as the drunken warrior poet with an iron hand. The people of Tumblr know their weird history and are jazzed about letting other people know, hence this awesome tumblr thread about messed up history facts.

In the heat of the moment, you might think it's a good idea to ride a shopping cart down a hill or see if you can catch a hammer thrown by your friend. Usually we realize after the fact, especially if these brilliant ideas go wrong, that maybe it wasn't so smart to do in the first place. In a similar vein, here are people sharing some of the dumbest injuries they've ever had.

This feels like a mean thing to do, but at the same time the seller did lay out his policy from the get-go. Man shoulda read the description. Not sure if this kind of practice should be standard, it's kind of time-consuming and awful, but them's the breaks. To see a baffling amount of entitlement, check out these choosing beggars who thought the world was their ATM.