10 Of The Most Unfortunate Things That People Were Forced To Deal With

Why let a bad day slide when it can be immortalized for everyone to see for the rest of time? This is the option picked by these netizens who decide to take a picture of a failure memorable enough to be both funny and painfully relatable. 

Mistakes can be everything from catastrophic to inconvenient, but funny, so this article attempts to show a bit of it all, from expensive fails to sheer stupidity. So get comfortable, make sure your sitting vessel is sound, and scroll through. Upvote your favorite fails and be sure to share your thoughts, stories, and experiences in the comments section below. 

10 PHOTOS

#1 My Friend Was Hit By A Car Running A Stop Sign Today And The Dude Left The Scene, But Hey, At Least He Left Her A Little Souvenir

#2 The Moment I Lost My Glasses

#3 Went To See The Famous Neuschwanstein Castle And This Was Our View

The fails listed here can fall into a number of categories, from mistakes due to inattention or particularly unwise decisions, all the way to such blatant bad luck that one should check for family curses. Either way, a very human reaction is to blame bad luck.

No matter how rational a person is, there is still an overwhelming amount of belief in ideas of “good” and “bad” luck out there. As Chip Denman has said, "Luck is probability taken personally." Instead of accepting that some days will just be bad, certain people start to assemble logical structures that would “explain” why something improbably unfortunate happened to them in particular. 

#4 Blizzard Blew The Main Door Of My Garage Open Yesterday

#5 We Were Really Excited To Use A Lime From Our Lime Tree For The First Time

#6 Of The 69 Things They Tested Me For, I'm Allergic To 60 Of Them

The psychological games behind the scenes vary from person to person. People more susceptible to gambling addiction might treat most random chances with the so-called gambler’s fallacy, where they believe that a string of bad luck has to be followed by good. This is why a person can continue to dump money into a losing game or investment long past any chance of recovering it. 

#7 Just Bought A Minivan From A Friend A Few Weeks Ago, Kept Getting Spiderwebs In The Car, And Decided To Bug-Bomb It. Found These

#8 Over 30 Cars Got Flat Tires On The 405 From A Fallen Box Of Nails

#9 My Car Broke Down This Morning On My Way To Work And Had To Be Towed. Not 5 Minutes After I Got Home, My Ceiling Collapsed

In very extreme cases, when a person has a particular streak of bad or good luck, they start to attach significance to completely unrelated things that were happening at the same time. If a person wins at blackjack on two separate Tuesdays, they may now see Tuesday as their “lucky” day, causing them to behave more recklessly on this day, most likely losing them more money in the long run. Some people take this so far that they will only make major life decisions on “lucky days," which is probably the cause of a lot of "unlucky days" for others who need an answer now.

#10 A Tornado Overnight In Thomaston, Georgia, Ripped A Home Off Its Foundation And Put It In The Road