That lovely German word 'schadenfreude' describes the pleasure that one gets in witnessing another person's misfortune. While we don't necessarily condone this slightly evil feeling, it can be useful in putting one's own struggles and unfortunate events into perspective.
For example, you're not having a good time of things. You didn't get much sleep, the car won't start, and you're late for work. Seems like you're having the worst day ever! It's easy to feel grumpy and full of self-pity; you might even bring the people around you down as well, with your crappy mood.
However, one look at this list, compiled by Bored Panda, will immediately make you realize how much worse things can be. These people are having a really bad day, and it's sure to be worse than yours. Does that make things better? Yes. Should it really? Probably not. But somehow it does, so who are we to argue?
Scroll down below for your daily dose of schadenfreude, whether you need it or not, and feel free to tell us about your own funny accidents in the comments!
#1 Jonah Hill Dropping His Coffee
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#2 This Girl Was Bleaching Her Hair And Put A Plastic Bag From Walmart Over It To Help The Heat Stay In And It Printed The Ink Onto Her Hair
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#3 When You Forget Your Friends
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#4 Someone Cut Me Up While Transporting Chilli For My Sister-In-Law's Birthday Dinner
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#5 Just Married Couple In Front Of Their Burning Car
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#6 Context Matters
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#7 Hmmm
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#8 A Statue Of Jesus In India Mysteriously Began Dripping Water From Its Toes. Worshippers Started Collecting It And Drinking It Believing It Was Holy. The Source Of The Water Was Later Found To Be A Clogged Toilet Near The Statue
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#9 Imagine Getting Your Name Excluded Like This In A Movie Credit Scene
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#10 I Received This Gift From My Crush
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#11 When You Ignore The Foul Taste Of Morning Tea
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#12 Well The Neighbor Won’t Be Leaving Any Time Soon
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#13 "I Dunno Mum. It Came With The Frame"
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#14 Rude Awakening
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#15 Sucks To Be You, Tom
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#16 Came Home For A Week To Help My Parents Out With Some Yard Work. Turns Out, I Don’t Know What Poison Ivy Looks Like
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#17 FFS
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#18 I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans. By Hand
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#19 Damn You, Autocorrect
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#20 The Dutch Police Isn't Immune To Stupid Mistakes Either
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#21 Not Dead
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#22 I Dislocated My Jaw. While Eating Cereal
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#23 My Morning Coffee Had Extra Aroma Today
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#24 Home Alone Cleaning The Roof And Gutters When I Heard A Loud Bang
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#25 My Shorts Had Been Inside Out The Entire Time
A package I had been waiting for was delivered to the post office, I jumped out of bed, put some shoes on and I went to the post office, there were some folks in there and I talked to a few. I got home and I started to cook myself food, and I noticed my shorts had been inside out the entire time.
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#26 We Didn’t Have The Heart To Tell Him
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#27 This Is What Happened When Your Wife Wraps The Meat The Same Way Your Sandwiches Are Wrapped For Work
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#28 Apparently The Kids Were Too Distracted To Shut The Door
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#29 Fighting An Ant Infestation In My Kitchen The Last Couple Days. Didn't Think To Check My Cereal Box. Realized The Small Brown Things Are Ants 6-8 Bites In
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#30 I Made A Lasagna For Lunch. Here's The Result
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#31 So, My Bottle Hair Dye Just Exploded
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#32 WCGW If I Forget Sunscreen
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#33 Got Trapped In A Toilet In China With This Note On The Mirror. Found It Translates To "Please Do Not Lock The Door"
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#34 So I Started Work As A Beekeeper Last Week
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#35 Someone At Porsche Is Getting Fired Today
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#36 Our Company Now Has 900 Of These Pens
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#37 300 Eggs Down Ten Minutes Before The End Of My Shift. Eggscelent
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#38 It's Not What It Looks Like. It's A Smoothie
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#39 I'm Leaving My Job After 5 Years Today, Over 500 People I Work With, This Is My Leaving Card
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#40 Oh No
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#41 I’m Literally In A Bathroom Stall At Work Right Now Covered In Clown Paint And I Just Tried Wiping It Off And It's Not Coming Off
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#42 Picked My Car Up From The Mechanic Yesterday After Having A Bunch Of Things Replaced Totalling $2100 Just To Have Burst Into Flames On Me This Morning. I'm Too Poor For This Shit
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#43 Found Out On The Way Home From Getting Our New Puppy That She Gets Car Sick. We Had An Hour Left To Drive
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#44 Throwback To The Time I Signed A "Funny" Signature, And Then The Computer Froze And I Had To Explain To The Three Employees That Came To Help That No, My Name Isn't Poop Mouth And No, I Don't Know Why I Wrote That, And Please Just Take My Money So I Can Go Home And Die
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#45 Keys Inside Armored Truck
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#46 My Poor Girlfriend Wakes Up To Her Laptop With A Hot Iron On Top Of It Courtesy Of Her Brother
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#47 I Give Up
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#48 Oops
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#49 So The Jehovahs Witness’ At My Gfs Mom’s Friend’s Forgot To Put The Parking Brake On
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#50 Well, There Goes Our Rice Stock For Several Weeks
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#51 Probably The Greatest Picture Of Myself That’s Ever Been Taken
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#52 Lol
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#53 Dropped The Oil Filter In The Oil Pan While Changing It
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#54 Had To Check If There Was Pressure In The Pipe. Well Yes There Was. P.s It's Black Carpaint
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#55 Spent $11.75 Growing Tomatoes This Year. Here's My Whole Harvest
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#56 Paris CDG Airport. The luggage is in the middle of the road. Someone Will Have A Bad Day
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#57 My Mom Accidentally Left Her Mirror In Front Of The Window Over The Day. After Coming Back She Found This
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#58 Well, I Guess I'm The Chandelier Now
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#59 My Blind Friend Got Engaged Yesterday. He’s Pretty Sure
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#60 My Pen Exploded In My Mouth. I Have A Senior Speech For Marching Band Today
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#61 Work Day Gone Wrong
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#62 Wcgw If I Drain A Deep Fryer Into A Plastic Bucket?
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#63 Still Better Than A Dui!
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#64 Two Brothers Won The Lottery On The Same Day
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#65 Oh Well
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#66 Funny
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#67 Today I Learned That I Sleepwalk
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#68 That Ain't Chocolate
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#69 My Steam Iron Wasnt Working Properly So I Decided To Run It With Vinegar, Thinking It Might Be Related To Calcium Deposits. Guess I Was Right
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#70 I Didn't Notice That My Glove Broke While Dying My Friend's Hair And Now My Hands Are Stained
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#71 Before And After I ****** Up At Work
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#72 While Drunk 13 Years Ago I Let Someone Take A Leather Punch To My Ear. Turns Out It's Impossible To Close Up Cartilage
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#73 I’m Having A My-Kid-Puked-In-My-Prosthetic-Foot Day. You?
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#74 Got Home From Work Today. Realized I’ve Been Walking Around Meeting Clients With A Giant 6-7 In Rip In My Pants That No One Said Anything About. So I Figured The Internet Should Also Know
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#75 Got A New Printer. The Old One Didn’t Go Out Without A Fight
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#76 It's A Me A-Marioooo ...oh
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#77 Dropped A Glass In The Sink And Thought I Lucked Out When It Didn’t Shatter
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#78 Just... How?
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#79 Well That Sucks
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#80 Oh No
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#81 My Friend Found A Dead Bird In Her Shoes This Morning
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#82 I Just Broke The Door Handle Of My Appartement And Cut Myself. I'm Also Locked In
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#83 Time To Move, I Guess
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#84 Former One Direction Member Niall Horan Votes ‘No’ On A Fan’s Poll Whether She Should Date Him
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#85 A Friend On Ig Posted This To Their Story Yesterday
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#86 Finally Made A Good Lattice Crust Then I Went And Knocked My Cactus Onto It
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#87 A Truck Carrying A Tank Of White Paint Dropped It On The Road
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#88 Woman Wins $42,949,672.76 On A Slot Machine, But Casino Doesn't Pay Out Claiming It's A Glitch (It's An Integer Overflow) (Credit To U/Lost448 On R/Softwaregore)
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#89 Taxes
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#90 Scene Outside My Apartment Today
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#91 When You Quickly Open Your Envelope Out Of Excitement
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#92 Played At Topgolf For The First Time Yesterday. This Is What I Found When I Got To My Car
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#93 The Way She Turns Around In Horror
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#94 My Smoothie
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#95 That Feeling When You Have A Good Clear Out And All You've Got To Do Is Put The Rubbish In The Bin... Well I Had That Feeling Until I Got To The Stairs And The Handle Snapped
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#96 My Wife Reminded Me Several Times To Put The Dog In His Kennel And I Did Not. He Promised He Would Be A Good Boy And He Was Not
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#97 When Your One Piece Sink/Counter Randomly Explodes At 3am
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#98 Looks Like I’m Not Getting My Bluetooth Earbuds Back For A While
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#99 Stray Bullet Landed On A Solar Panel I Just Installed
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#100 When I Came To See The Largest Tower In The World
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#101 Well Sh*t
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#102 100 Yard Golf Shot Straight To The Face While Watching Sunset In Backyard Of Home On Golf Course
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#103 I Totally Forgot That Having ‘Now Playing’ As A Face On Your Apple Watch Isn’t Just For Music, But Just The Last ‘Media’ You Might Have Watched That Day. It’s The New Watch, Too, The One That Doesn’t Turn Off The Screen. Cringe For Me And The Amount Of Customers Who Likely Saw This Today
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#104 Oh No
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#105 The Handle Of My Serving Spoon Snapped, Turns Out The Handle Was Full Of Sand And It Ruined My Delicious Turkey Stuffing Leftovers
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#106 Who Dis
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#107 I Went To Give An Important Presentation And This Happened
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#108 Came Back From Holidays To Find My Second Phone Like This
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#109 Tried Recreating The Spider-Man Meme With A Panorama And Tripped On My Way To The Other Side
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#110 The Moment You Realize You Used The Wrong Spray
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#111 Tried To Capture The Moment I Proposed To My Girlfriend This Weekend
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#112 I Dunno Why My Friend Did This, I Just Thought It Would Fit Here
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#113 I Thought I Was Going To Die In A Playground
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#114 Cement Truck
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#115 Broken Eyelash Curler Leads To A Very Sucky Morning
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#116 Had Some Trouble With The Ketchup Dispenser At Work
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#117 Noooo
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#118 Friggin Rock
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#119 Nice
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#120 Dropped My Credit Card In A Public Toilet. While It Had A Stranger's Pee In It
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#121 Forgetting About Your Pizza For 8 Hours. Burnt So Bad It Looks Like A Double-Chocolate Brownie
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#122 It Finally Happened To Me
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#123 Going To Be A Long Flight
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#124 Happy I Booked The Window Seat
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#125 To Enjoy That Sunny Mid-January Weather
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#126 I'll Just Ride Across This Little Patch Of Wet Cement, What Could Go Wrong?
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#127 Poor Guy
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#128 Excited To Start My New Job, Wanted To Make A Good Impression, Got There Early And Promptly Spilled Coffee All Over My Crotch
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#129 Irony, Meet Bad Luck; I Think You Two Will Get Along Just Great!
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#130 My Friend Asked Me To Take A Picture Of Him Standing On This Platform
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#131 Stitch UPS
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#132 Wcgw If My Neighbour Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There?
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#133 Tried Cooking A Sweet Potato In My New Air Fryer Today
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#134 The Call Before You Dig Guy Said It Was Safe To Dig
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#135 Rain Update : I Woke Up To The Sight Of My Clothes, Shoes, Refrigerator And Washing Machine Floating
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#136 Just Had My Car Detailed And My Kid Was Sick
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#137 Remember To Close Your Door Before Using An Automated Parking System
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#138 Bringing A Ball That Big To A Beach Is Asking For A Disaster
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#139 Looks Like I Won't Be Listening To My New Vinyl Record. Thanks, USPS
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#140 Dammit!
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#141 With A Highway Closed In Both Directions Due To A Bush Fire, Here Was The Next Quickest Way To Get Between Wa And Sa
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#142 Smelled Gas, Very Strong. Couldn't Locate. Called Emergency Number. Showed Up. Turned Out To Be A Safety Flyer In My Recyling That Had A Gas Smell "Sample" On It
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#143 Only My Boyfriends Certification He Worked Months On. Thats All. Damn You USPS
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#144 Took My Truck In For An Alignment. I Think They Are Doing It Wrong
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#145 Sat Down To Enjoy A Nice Saturday Morning Cup Of Coffee
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#146 This Was My Dad's Boat On Our 2nd Time Out After Buying It. It Was Also On My Birthday
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#147 I Tried To Add Some Chicken Salt To My Chips
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#148 The Best Spot In The Parking Lot Is Empty For A Reason
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#149 The Oculus Quest Apparently Doubles As A $400 Dog Treat
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#150 It Was A Bit Windy In Downtown Yesterday
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#151 First Night In The New House And My Wife Cooks A Plastic Bag On The Brand New Stove
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#152 Parking A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
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#153 Awkward
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#154 Received This Text Yesterday While Eating Our Last Nectarine. My Husband Also Hates Tomatoes
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#155 I Met Adam Savage And Had Someone Take Our Picture
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#156 When Class Is Canceled And I’m The Only One To Not Read The Email And Show Up
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