25+ People Whose Guardian Angels Were Definitely Looking Away (Try Not To Laugh!)

emiliegardham | November 9, 2024 7:00 am

Be honest, there have been moments in your life when you find yourself thanking your lucky stars that some impossible situation worked out OK for you.

We've all breathed that sigh of relief when we don't actually end up being late for work, or when we make it to the grocery store before it closes. Sometimes it's even for big things like being saved from a car that didn't see you! Those moments are great, but there are also moments in life when you can't help by feel like whoever was looking out for you then, wasn't watching this time. Read on through to learn more.

Nothing Like Coffee In The Morning

someone spilled their coffee all over the floor
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Photo Credit: Reddit / 732

Nothing like picking it up off the floor, that is!

After you scoop all those little beans up, you're going to need something even stronger to go with your coffee in the morning.

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Talk About An Uninvited House Guest

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someone found a snake skin in their attic
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This person went upstairs to their attic to check on a leak that they were having, only to find this freshly shed snake skin.

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Depending on how afraid you are of snakes, it might be time to just burn the house down.

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Well, That Isn't Good News

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someone has termites and they are moving the studs in the wall
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This person was concerned about whatever this was that was "growing" from their basement ceiling at a rapid rate.

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Turns out that they're the studs from the house being pushed out by termites.

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Of All The Places

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someone lost their remote, found it on the ground hidden
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Photo Credit: Reddit / x-Mowens-x
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How many times have you set something down and told yourself "I'll find this later," only to not find it?

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Why is it that those places are always places like this, that camouflage the object so well?

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What Are The Chances?

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a contact with a hole in it
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Photo Credit: Reddit / madilmao
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Wearing contacts can be a hassle even on good days. It would be so uncomfortable to wear one that had a little hole in it!

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But relieving to find out that that's all the itching and blurred vision was from.

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That's Fine, We Didn't Need That Knife

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the handle came off someone's knife
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Photo Credit: Reddit / vRreeper
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Never underestimate the strength of butter that has been sitting in the fridge.

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That stuff is pretty much like cement, just waiting to ruin all your kitchen knives and make a big mess.

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What A Mess

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someone tried to use a beater in a peanut butter jar
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Photo Credit: Reddit / hayabusabjj
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I blame Pinterest for this one.

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This seems like something someone saw on those 60-second recipe posts and was like, "Oh, this must be real life." Well, guess what? It isn't.

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That's Unexpected

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a cow standing on a picnic blanket
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Jaminator97
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So, these people hiked for like two hours to reach this spot on the beach and then set up their picnic.

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For some reason, they left it for a minute or two, only to come back and find a cow had taken over.

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Cats Are The Worst

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cat destroyed bag of sugar
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Photo Credit: Reddit / JimJamSandwich
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Not sure why a cat would think that digging into a 25-pound bag of sugar would be a fun thing to do, but when do we ever know what's going on in a cat's mind?

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Hopefully, he doesn't think that that's a litter box.

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Imagine Failing At Oatmeal?

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oatmeal exploded in the microwave
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Photo Credit: Reddit / ride365
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Oatmeal has to be one of the easiest things to make!

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You have to be in a really dark place in your life to mess that one up. Let's just hope that everything is OK with this person.

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Ah Yes, The Sizing Sticker

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someone has a size sticker on their pants still
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Leaving the size sticker on your new clothes is like an embarrassment rite of passage.

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We've all done it, we've all seen someone else do it, and that's never going to change.

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That's So Unfortunate

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someone shrunk their sweets
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Photo Credit: Reddit / KarenFromAccounts
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Nothing is worse than realizing you've made a huge mistake after it's too late to fix it.

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Case in point, the classic hand wash-only sweater ending up in the dryer.

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This Is Just Insanity

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someone mislabeled tea and coffee jars
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Photo Credit: X / @richie_rich77
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Whatever this person is going through, I get it, but it's never too late to get help.

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It's that or they're an evil mastermind who knows how to annoy people.

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That's Some Seriously Bad Luck

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someone forgot their passport and boarding pass
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Photo Credit: Reddit / czmax
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The person who found the unfortunate passport and boarding pass in the bathroom noticed that the plane had left two hours earlier.

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Let's hope they figure out some way to get their passport back.

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The Look Of Defeat

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a guy dropped all his fruit
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Photo Credit: Reddit / theshaeman
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Fruit isn't cheap!

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So it would be a tragedy to decide to splurge on it and then get it to your car only to be a fool and let it spill all over the ground.

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Someone Has A Dead Phone

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someone plugged their charger in wrong
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Tom_Hagen305
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Let's hope that this bad situation didn't end up worse.

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Like their phone dying and not being able to wake them up with their alarm or something terrible like that.

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Delicious And Nutritious

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someone has been storing breast milk in a creamer
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Csxa11
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This is why people should know better than to use other people's things in the staff fridge.

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Don't be selfish, just go get your own creamer. You never know what's actually lurking in those containers.

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Curse The Snow

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someone left their car window open during the snow
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Palifath
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Unless this was one of those sneaky snows that happen in the middle of spring, there should be no reason why this person left their sunroof open in the middle of winter.

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Come on, people!

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Hmm...Where Did The Last Sausage Go?

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a cat ate the last sausage
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Photo Credit: X / @Animal_R_Us
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We'll give you three guesses, but the first two don't count.

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Seems to me like a tricky little kitty had their eye on that sausage and made no hesitation in taking it.

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This Marriage Is Going Well

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someone put up sign that says,
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Anyone in a relationship has, at one point or another, reached a point where they felt like they wanted to get rid of their partner.

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But putting them up for sale? Now there is an idea.

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Oh Dear

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someone left delivery instructions on their AirPod case
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Photo Credit: X / @rosa_falcini
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This person mistook the instructions on the order form for delivery instructions and not the inscription instructions.

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That's OK. She'll always have that there now as a reminder to read things more carefully.

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His Face Says It All

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a started shaving his head then his clippers died
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He started shaving his head when his clippers ended up dying right after he finished the top of his head.

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Of all the bad luck, this has to be up there.

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What A Thing To Wake Up To

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mail man left his bag on someone's porch
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This person woke up and opened the door to collect her morning mail and found that the mailman left his satchel on the porch.

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What does this mean? Is she the mailman now?

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At Least They Are Cute

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someone accidentally ordered a bunch of tiny hats
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When you're ordering something online, you really have to look at all the details of what you're ordering.

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Otherwise, you're going to end up with a bunch of tiny, expensive hats.

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I'd Still Try Them

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someone tried to make oatmeal and failed
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Craving something from your childhood is real and the overwhelming need to make that thing like oatmeal cookies can be powerful.

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Just make sure you know how to do it instead of throwing a bunch of oatmeal on a pan and calling it a day.

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This Belongs In A Museum

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little kid drew the face on their babysitter's boyfriend
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Photo Credit: X / @alketrolyat
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Again, you can't leave little kids alone with anything.

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This person got up to go to the bathroom and the kid erased the face of the picture they were drawing and drew a new one.

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What Kind Of Monster?

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someone ate the middle out of a brownie
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Photo Credit: X / @inasunlitroom
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Imagine you work hard to make someone brownies and you come into the kitchen and find that there is a monster in your house who cut a hole out of them?

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This isn't even the best part of the brownie.

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Hard Not To Take That Personally

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someone's scale shattered
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Photo Credit: Reddit / RedBanana99
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Scales are evil and they just fill our heads with self-doubt, and honestly, this is just further proof that no one should have one.

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Why would you want one when they go and be rude like this?

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The Last Thing We Need

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a toilet seat that doesn't sit right
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Photo Credit: Reddit / DarthReeder
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Imagine it's nighttime, you've gotten up to go to the washroom, and you don't turn on any lights because you don't want to lose your sleepiness.

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And then the toilet seat starts sliding underneath you.