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You should never expect things to go your way all the time. However the manner and variation of disappointing moments are completely unpredictable. Will you get rear-ended on your way to work? Or will your pancakes just look at you weird? There's just no way of knowing how things could go wrong.

We're all just trying to get through the day. Sometimes it helps to know that "just getting through the day" is pretty good compared to the unintended trials and tribulations life might throw at someone else. So here's misfortune big and small to put things in perspective. And if you wanna see more, then here it is.

There's something cathartic about watching bad things happen. We're not sure if this makes us bad people. Maybe it just makes us bored people. Anyway, here are some really unenviable times people had their day go awry due to some terrible or inconvenient unforeseen circumstance.

Yeah, being late to work or stepping in dog poop does suck, but things could be worse. You could be publicly humiliated, accidentally cause an enormous amount of property damage, or even come into mortal danger. Some unfortunate situations are more ridiculous or ironic than others. Chances are you aren't having all of this happen to you right now.

The Museum of English Rural Life is weirdly prolific on twitter, for a museum. A while ago they had an unexpected mouse guest, and things went about as stupidly as anyone could guess.

Sometimes you just wanna sit back with the boys and crack open an ice cold Vergina.

Just goes to show that at any given moment, you're at the mercy of the universe. Especially if you've already messed up your day through your own devices.

It's all fun and games until the seagulls notice you have fries. Then you're lucky just to get outta there. Here are a bunch of instances that'll make you realize your day is probably going pretty smoothly.

Alright, some of these folks could've worked harder to avoid their situations, but none of the outcomes are fun.

Can it get much worse? You can see for yourself at FMyLife.com

Tom Hardy, Hollywood leading man and naval-certified dream boat, is a human just like you.

And just like you, he had a Myspace profile back when it was a social imperative to do so.

And just like you, it was full of half-baked self descriptions and terrible pictures.

Admit it, your Myspace page was also a wasteland of ill-formed notions, crafted from clumsy ideas on how to introduce yourself to the Internet.

We don't have yours, so let's look at Hardy's.