People Admit What They'd Do To Piss People Off If They Could
[rebelmouse-image 18353940 is_animated_gif=Fewer things in life are more fun than (harmlessly) messing with people. If you could annoy people for a living, how would you do it? Reddit users with panache for pushing people's buttons share their ideas.
wandy24 asked, You're a burglar, but instead of stealing things you do things to mildly inconvenience your victims. What do you do?
Submissions have been edited for clarity, context, and profanity.
People can go bald from this.
[rebelmouse-image 18353941 is_animated_gif=Change their computer mouse settings to reverse left and right click.
Lather, rinse, delicious.
[rebelmouse-image 18353942 is_animated_gif=I used to LOVE doing this kinda sh_t when I was drunk at parties in high school. I never stole anything but I would do stuff to make them wonder wtf happened.
My classic move was taking the mustard out of their fridge and putting it next to the shampoo in the shower.
Toiler paper goes OVER the spool. It's the law.
[rebelmouse-image 18353943 is_animated_gif=Put the toilet paper the wrong way.
Wait for it...
[rebelmouse-image 18353944 is_animated_gif=I would just hide motivational quotes around the house, so they grab their hairbrush and there's a note that says "You're looking great today!" or they pour a glass of milk and there's a note in it saying "Glad to see you're drinking healthy!" Or when they take a shower and the mirror gets steamy they get out and there's a note in the steam that says "I'm going to murder your family"
You know, cute stuff to get their day moving.
Savage.
[rebelmouse-image 18353945 is_animated_gif=Rip all of the labels off the cans in the pantry.
Great for your last day at work...
[rebelmouse-image 18353947 is_animated_gif=Install a script on all the computers that generates a random number between 1 and 255 on startup and then shuts down the computer after that number of minutes.
It's amazing how long it takes people to figure this out.
[rebelmouse-image 18353948 is_animated_gif=Take the batteries out of the TV remote.
This is evil.
[rebelmouse-image 18351454 is_animated_gif=I hide single socks so they can never find a pair.
I do this to my grandmother, it never fails.
[rebelmouse-image 18353949 is_animated_gif=Here's a nice story:
To intimidate mildly troublesome individuals, the Russian Secret Service has a habit of entering people's houses while they are away and moving a harmless but obvious object like a vase, several days in a row.
The first time this happens, the occupant generally doesn't notice or blame their own forgetfulness when they do. The second time they will start to feel apprehensive and will memorize the exact location of the object before they leave the house again. The third time they will freak out and realize that they need to stop being such a mildly troublesome individual.
This is quite the egg-xit.
[rebelmouse-image 18353950 is_animated_gif=Place eggs on the floor so that the entire floor is densely covered in eggs, packed in tight.
Give this person a TV show.
[rebelmouse-image 18353952 is_animated_gif=- Set alarm clock 5 minutes early. Nothing quite as bad as waking up early, but no early enough to sleep some more.
- Just a tiny bit of sand exactly where you place your feet when sitting on the side of your bed.
- Set the shower a lot hotter. Who doesn't just turn it on, then undress and then get in the shower assuming it's perfect because you barely ever change how warm it is.
- Leave just a tiny bit in the Shampoo bottle, just too little to actually create foam. Giving you the feeling it's not as clean as you'd like.
- Switch all the dark blue en black socks with each other so that all pairs are 1 dark blue and 1 black.
- Wrinkle the pants... just a little though. Just so that he/she won't have the feeling of looking "good", but not that much that they will iron it or something like that.
- Do to the toothpaste the exact same thing as done to the shampoo bottle.
- Hide the favorite coffee mug behind all the glasses. Behind stacked glasses just so that he does have to actually move them, but carefully.
- Empty the cornflakes too just leaving too little to be satisfied. You know, when there is just too much milk but too little cornflakes.
Guess I'll stop here.
"I knew I was feeling off today."
[rebelmouse-image 18353953 is_animated_gif=Shift everything about 2 inches to the left of its current position. It would be just subtle enough for them not to notice visually, but something would feel off, and they'd end up walking into something because they're so used to it being in the previous position.
MONSTER.
[rebelmouse-image 18353954 is_animated_gif=I set their search engine to Bing.
The longer you picture it, the funnier it gets.
[rebelmouse-image 18353955 is_animated_gif=Replace their hand soap and sanitizer with KY jelly.
Time to move.
[rebelmouse-image 18353956 is_animated_gif=Hide a fish somewhere.
A classic.
[rebelmouse-image 18353957 is_animated_gif=Salt in the sugar bowl, sugar in the salt shaker.
The most British backfire ever.
[rebelmouse-image 18353958 is_animated_gif=This reminds me of a time I swapped the tea bags in my sister's house so that there was a herbal tea in the main jar and regular English tea up in the cupboard. They decided not to change it around because they just got used to it. Then when I went round sometime in the future I thought they would have changed it back and I made myself a vile cup of herbal tea.
Absolute cruelty.
[rebelmouse-image 18353959 is_animated_gif=Place tiny lego pieces in random places on the floor
Genius tbh...
[rebelmouse-image 18353960 is_animated_gif=I love taking a part hotel paintings and signing them. I refrain from doing it when I visit friend's houses.
Just go away.
[rebelmouse-image 18353961 is_animated_gif=Take one shoelace off of every pair of shoe.
Let's face it, when emotions are running high and something important is at stake, we're bound to make mistakes and either say or do the wrong thing.
This might even be especially true of parents.
But even if our angriest and most vulnerable moments, there are things we should never, ever say to a child.
Redditor son_of_x asked:
"What are things parents should never say to their children?"
Exposure Therapy
"Don’t make your kids do the things you’re afraid to face."
"When I was a kid, my mom dumped all that s**t on me. Rent was late? I had to face the landlord. She’d try to convince me it was a fun game, like see how fast you can run to his door, drop a check in the mail slot, and run back to the car."
"Even at ten years old, I knew it wasn’t a d**n game. All she was doing was transferring her anxiety directly to me."
"Be honest with your kid about the s**tty situations you might be in, but don’t make them carry the weight in your place."
- Ineedyoursway
They're to Blame
"NEVER tell a child that the divorce is their fault."
- ashabranch
"I remember back when I was like 10, my mom didn’t take me to school one morning because she was upset that the clothes in my dresser weren’t folded."
"My dad had to take me to school instead. And on the way there, he yelled, 'You’re tearing this family apart!’"
"I’m like... Bro, if unfolded clothes in a dresser are what tears this family apart, then you all have other sh*t to be concerned about."
- _mike_hunt
Life: Ruined
"'Having you ruined my life,' is the worst I ever heard."
- Tough_Stretch
No Accountability
"'I don't remember that, that never happened!' when a kid brings up a past trauma."
- dafrstofus
"My MIL (Mother-in-Law) [96] is the healthiest human I know with the caveat that she has the usual ailments that affect old arteries, etc. She has three sons, my Dear Husband (70), a slightly older, quasi-celebrity brother, and a younger brother. They work like animals. They can’t help it, although they should try."
"Every single time my husband brings up a childhood memory, my MIL rebuffs it by saying the incident he’s recalling never happened. No one’s allowed to have a memory but her."
"It drives my husband (and me) up a wall. We live fairly close to her, but he struggles so much with spending time with her because of this."
"She just tells him, 'That’s not true.' Instead of embracing what he and they remember, she shuts them down."
- l31l4j4d3
Controlling Diet
"My mom stuck me on this super restrictive diet when I was 11. The entire diet was the whole reason I struggled with eating disorders in my childhood."
"I brought it up in therapy at 17 and at first, she claimed it never happened. Then she remembered talking to doctors about my weight, then googling diets for children, and then putting me on a diet sounded like something she would've done... but it still didn't happen."
"Gotta love her. But, to be honest, I can't even say I love my mom."
"I was the neglected child as she had four other kids, and I'm the middle one. After some point, I stopped wanting my mom's approval for anything."
"I actually had my therapist ask me what a good mother-daughter relationship would look like to me if we were to ever get close, and I honestly couldn't answer."
"It's weird to think that the one thing I wanted my entire childhood, I don't want now. At least not with my biological mother."
"My boyfriend's mom, on the other hand, is amazing, and I love the mother-daughter-like relationship we have. I'm still in awe that I even found a family that loves me as if I were their biological kid."
- pumpkinthighs
Whose Opinion?
"Your opinion doesn’t matter."
"That one still haunts me and is the reason I never speak up."
- TapReasonable2678
Foster Care Warnings
"Threaten to send them to live in foster care if they don't do what the parent wants. My mother used to use that threat if she saw me picking my nose. I didn't realize how f**ked up that was until I was an adult."
- adeon
"I remember my mom doing this. That I need to just stay in my room and be quiet, or she'd send me away. F**ked me up, man. I was probably around six."
- Substantial_Part_952
Body-Shaming
"This is kind of a low bar as far as bad things my parents did goes (they also hit us for far dumber reasons than not eating our food)."
"When I was a kid, my parents were very controlling. Now, that meant, among other things, that they didn't let me go outside, for fear that neighbor kids would wander by and I'd hear things that went against my parents' ideologies. It also meant that they controlled exactly what and how much I ate. As in, if I didn't want to clean my plate, I was beaten."
"Well, I was also a fat kid, and given how much control I had over both my food intake and the exercise I could do (since I couldn't go outside), I didn't have much say in the matter."
"My parents gave me so much s**t about it over the years, though. Like, even if you were allowed to have some agency in your life, you shouldn't get that kind of s**t. It was pretty miserable."
"Anyway, when I went away to college, I was finally on my own, and I took charge of that. Everybody was warning me about the freshman 15, but I was looking at my intake. That's not great of course, but I lost a couple of pounds. Not even that much."
"And then I went back home for winter break, and my parents were all, 'Oh, you're too thin, you need to eat more,' and I was like, 'No, I'm good, thanks.' At one point, my dad said, 'Eat more or I'm kicking you out of my house.'"
"And so I gained that weight back over the break, and by the end, they were back to giving me s**t about it."
"So, I dunno. Maybe don't be such a d**k about your kid's weight. Certainly not with demands and expectations that oscillate between two extremes like they did."
- Aperture_T
Mind Games
"'Until you start paying bills, you have no rights, so you’re d**n right I’m coming into your room whenever I feel like it, and I can take anything I want from it, too, because it’s actually mine.'"
"'You’re too stupid and lazy to be able to make it in the real world. And if someone ever did hire you, they’d fire you as soon as they realized what a mistake they’d made.'"
"'You have no idea how much you cost me. I could do X, Y, or Z things if I didn’t always have to pay for your crap.'"
"'We’re free thinkers in this house,' but then rages when I express a thought/opinion that’s different than theirs."
"'You’re just a kid, what do you have to be depressed about?' or 'You have nothing to be depressed about.'"
"After I told a doctor how I was actually feeling, they said, 'You can’t be that stressed, you’re just a kid! Are you trying to make me look like a bad parent?!'"
"Yes, I’m in therapy now."
- Ki-Larah
Useless
"Don't tell kids they're useless. The variant I used to get from Dad was posed as a question, 'Are you good for ANYTHING?!'"
" I mean, how was eight-year-old me supposed to answer that?"
"High school valedictorian, graduated from one of the US services academies, have a good, steady career, and live 2000 miles from where I grew up (wonder why?). But I was more into reading than outdoor sports, hunting, or working in our garden all summer, so not 'manly' enough for him at the time."
"It took until my mid-50s before we became close, and he passed away two months ago. Lots of wasted time."
- JEFFinSoCal
Intentional Provocation
"My dad antagonizing me purposely and then saying, 'dOn'T bE sO sEnSiTiVe,' when I get upset about the s**t he says."
- LianOLis
An Important Reminder
"Moms, stop criticizing your body in front of your daughters!!"
- buceethevampslayer
"Seriously! My mother would say that she hated her body and that we looked 'so alike' in the same breath, it was very damaging."
- 97ratsinatrenchcoat
Comparison Culture
"Comparing them to others, talking about their weight, focusing on the negatives or their wrongdoings, constantly dismissing them, unwilling to hear their opinions because of the 'I'm right, you're wrong' mentality."
"There's so much."
- The_gentle_one
Confusing Lessons
"Always punishing and complaining about what you shouldn't do, but never saying or rewarding what you should."
- RoDeltaR
The Perfect Rebuttal
"'I brought you into this world. I can take you out of it,' was my mom's favorite."
- belle254
"What I wish I would have said back: 'No, you can't. You'd be arrested, and the world would view you as a monster and a psychopath.'"
- Narren_C
While parenting carries with it a lot of demands, there are certain things that absolutely should not be done, including statements that should never be uttered.
It's clear the damaging impact they have when they are used. Avoid them at all cost.
Not all knowledge is power.
Some knowledge is straight-up horror-inducing.
I mean, I suppose it's good to know as much bad stuff as possible so we can try to avoid it all.
Redditor Possible_Hawk495 wanted to hear about all of the worst possible things in life, so they asked:
"What is a disturbing fact you wish you never knew?"
I'm not sure I'm ready for this...
"WARNING - The following is not for the faint of heart or anyone under 17. Or anyone with a pulse probably..."
Preferences
Whitney Houston Reaction GIFGiphy"It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls."
dont_u_know
"Just like China, they don't think long term enough about it."
Rock_of_Spaces
While You Were Sleeping
"That one can be aware they are in coma and not able to get out of it. I get anxious just thinking about it."
tooshyforreddit
"I’ve been in a coma, it’s different experiences based on the conditions, I believe. I was in it when I had multiple organ failure when I was 22."
"Even though you’re aware, I wouldn’t equate my experience to being fully aware and stuck. It kind of feels like when you wake up from a very very deep nap, and things seem fuzzy. Weirdly enough being in that state for a few week was some of the most peaceful my body ever felt being honest."
JelloisYummy
Horrifying
"Just how painful and torturous extreme radiation sickness is."
Scarfs-Fur-Frumpkin
"Between that video and the scene in HBO’s Chernobyl where the firefighter is screaming for help in the hospital as his skin falls off, I have learned not to be too cavalier about the use of nuclear armaments or nuclear safety."
aspidities_87
The usual suspects...
"After any significant natural disaster or conflict starts up, human traffickers swarm to the country looking for unattended children. Law enforcement will start watching ports of entry for the usual suspects... the usual suspects."
Ausramm
Good Lord
Red Carpet Teeth GIF by Recording Academy / GRAMMYsGiphy"A toddler's adult teeth are right below their eyes."
SuvenPan
"Yeah, I saw a photograph of a small child's skull with part of the area around the jaw removed and it's just packed with teeth."
CRtwenty
My teeth were where? OMG!
From the Inside
"Tarantula hawks are giant flying wasps that sting tarantulas, inducing paralysis. They then drag the paralyzed tarantula back to their nest and lay eggs in them. The eggs hatch, and the larvae slowly devour the still-alive, paralyzed tarantula from the inside."
GlassHalfFullofAcid
Fatality
"Rabies. Just everything about rabies."
spade13F
"Once you're symptomatic, 99.99% fatality rate and that 'lucky' iota that survive in medically-induced comas end up with permanent neurological damage. Also, the horrifying hallucinations."
Tiny_Parfait
"Rabies is pretty interesting. if you are vaccinated then it's 100% preventable, if not your chance of dying is 99.9%."
Unaccounted_fart
After the Hatch
"I remember watching an episode of the show Monsters Inside Me where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong."
"Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly very briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me."
-eDgAR-
The Spine Attack
"A guy I used to work with had either a condition or got a virus (I don't remember which, this was about 20 years ago) that attacked his spine; he went to bed fine and woke up the next day totally paralyzed from the waist down. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There was no slow progression, just walking fine one day and completely unable to walk the next."
"I just looked up his obituary (he passed in 2011) he apparently had Transverse Myelitis that led him to become paralyzed."
A911owner
Put it Back
Giphy"Seems obvious when you think about it, but after an autopsy, they don't put everything back where they found it. It goes in a bag in the abdominal cavity."
clevebeat
Well I'll never sleep again.
Do you have anything to add? Let us know in the comments below.
The truth hurts.
Unencumbered truth bombs in a break up hurts the worst.
Sometimes it's a surprise when a lover reveals why they're going.
Other times you see it coming and chose denial.
Either way, who cares?
The hurt is still gonna hurt.
So it's always a good idea to know the why and how, so that growth can happen.
Either we can change ourselves or keep a better lookout for the toxic the next round.
Redditor Turbulent-Visit-8741 wanted to hear the more somber ends to love stories, so they asked:
"Why did your SO break up with you?"
I'm just not in love with you anymore.
I wish I had had a better answer. But it was the only answer.
She Was Right
Idiot Reaction GIFGiphy"Because I was a f**king idiot and used alcohol as a bad coping mechanism, and it got to the point where I was a horrible person when I was drunk. I miss her but don't blame her for leaving."
Lopsided-Finger-7586
About Andy
"She kept talking about Andy at work constantly. When I finally blew up and asked her if something was happening she hit the roof and ended it. 2 months later in the announcements in the local newspaper guess who was engaged to Andy."
brothhead
"Lol they always think they’re slick, right? I had a similar situation, I guess she thought I didn’t notice how often his name came up or how she’d make involuntary facial expressions when someone from their school group mentioned his name. It is what it is man, I know the feeling."
SalsaSmuggler
She Deserved Better
"I was a drug addict slipping below the waterline, she was a middle class beautiful woman who deserves better than that."
Rumple-Wank-Skin
"Kudos for not instantly saying 'she was a *itch' or something like that. Taking ownership is a rare find. But it takes two, as they say, to make a thing go right."
"You BOTH deserved better out of you, and you deserved help when you needed it. (I certainly know very little about your situation so I apologize for presuming so much, but as a career addict, hypocrite, and know-it-all, it certainly sounds like something I was about to write myself….)"
TwentyCharacters2022
2 Fast
"I got way too serious way too quickly. I wanted to spend all my time with her and just smothered her. Its a bit embarrassing looking back at it now. She's the only relationship Ive had where I was the one who got dumped."
UnfinishedThings
"That almost seems like a right of passage for guys that are late bloomers. Every guy i know that's always been single and finally gets a girlfriend get way to clingy and scare them off. Doesn't matter what you tell them they can't help themselves."
CarmenxXxWaldo
"I did the same with my first relationship. I got super clingy and pushed too hard because I was immature. He ghosted me instead of talking to me though (this is before cellphones I’m so old lol). So I guess we were both too immature."
Alternative_Let_1599
Unoriginal
Not Funny No GIFGiphy"Met their soul mate that was a year younger than our eldest child (18) after 22 years of marriage."
LJRGUserName
"Oh God, I had a similar experience. 22 year marriage as well. They got married last year and she is currently pregnant. He’s 52 and she is 34. I also got the 'soulmate' explanation when I found out he was cheating. They’re so unoriginal."
Mahalo-808
Age is definitely more than JUST a number.
The Diagnosis
"I was diagnosed with autism and suddenly all the quirky things I did, and had always done she suddenly became noticeably uncomfortable with. Eventually she cheated on me."
Woffingshire
I’m feeling this one. Was diagnosed a few years ago and suddenly all my quirks and idiosyncrasies have an explanation, and now my wife (who used to love my quirks) is upset that I’m 'not doing anything to fix it.' Seems like she’s no longer tolerant now that there’s a diagnosis - makes me think that I’ve gone from quirky to broken in her mind and she’s embarrassed? Frustrated? Angry? I don’t know."
-praetorr-
Not Happy
playing broken heart GIF by Antoine DoréGiphy"After being together for 6 years, 4 of them living together, one day she said 'I'm not happy.' Packed all her stuff and left. Never seen her or talked to her ever since. I wish I could at least gotten a proper reason for it or just a talk about what went wrong."
MrKhinkali
The "Fun" Guy
"The manager that she had been spending 10+ hours a day with behind the bar just seemed more fun. Left me, the kids, pets and house to take care of and just disappeared for days and sometimes weeks. Found out Xanax was involved, which would explain the lapse in time."
"Wish she would have just broken up with me, rather than cheat for months beforehand. Should be noted that weekly I receive 'I miss you and I just want to come home' texts. Too bad I moved cause i couldn’t afford our place alone… no home for you to return to. Enjoy your screaming matches with the 'fun' guy. Since I moved on, my life has been unreasonably better."
No-Influence-9293
The Last Straw
"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. She loved it. I thought the biggest crime was the movie itself. We had a fight about it. The end."
"Jk. It's more complicated than that. A lot of tension was building up over the past year, but that fight made us realize we were very different people than we used to be and that things hadn't been working out for a while."
Akai1up
"When you're fighting over mundane things and arguing harshly about personal taste in movies, sh*t has gotten rough. I feel like there's a large lack of respect and trust at that point."
smileunicornsloveyou
Good Luck
Sad Season 2 GIF by FriendsGiphy"I had cancer and ultimately my arm removed at the shoulder. First it was 'I'm totally devoted to you' and 6 months later it was 'good luck.' This was 13 years ago. Still pisses me off."
Patri100ia
Some people are the epitome of cruel.
Do you have any similar experiences? Let us know in the comments below.
Traveling and seeing new places and cultures should be on everyone's bucket list, but like every other experience, there are going to be some disappointing ones.
Some travel destinations are so disappointing, however, that people vow to never visit them again.
Ironically, many of those locations are dedicated travel destinations!
Redditor Gourmet-Guy asked:
"Which city are you NOT going to visit ever again, and why?"
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
"Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Devastating, hopeless, traumatizing, soul-crushing poverty that gets me emotional when I think back on it. The things I saw there… words fail to describe."
- MPD1987
"I was checking my watch every few minutes counting down the days and hours until I could leave. It was a scary place where even those that are supposed to protect you are open to attacking and robbing/kidnapping/murdering you."
- rayrayrayray
Birmingham, Alabama
"Birmingham, Alabama. My wife was almost kidnapped right in front of me while I was holding our infant. Luckily she’s scrappier than she looks and they gave up when they couldn’t quickly shove her in the car."
- starwestsky
Cairo, Egypt
"Cairo. I've seen everything I wanted to see there, but would never return. Tourists are treated like cattle there, by those involved in the tourist trade, much to the embarrassment of the many good Egyptian people who live in the city."
- kublakhan1977
"We hired a dedicated driver and tour guide for a couple of days so didn't feel like cattle. That said, the number of people harassing us to try to get money was obnoxious. When our guide was with us, they stayed back, but the second he gave us some time to explore, they were horrible."
"Plus, seeing military personnel with assault rifles everywhere was a bit unsettling..."
"This was like a month before the coup, and we could sense something was off, as well."
"That said, our guide was awesome."
- fezmid
"Cairo... My god... I have said this before but... the pollution, the people asking you for money everywhere you go, the mistreatment of animals... I wish I could say that the historical side of the city makes up for it but... nope."
- udontnowme
Marrakesh, Morocco
"Marrakesh, Morocco. The only place I’ve ever been that I’ve sworn I’d never go back to."
"After two days of walking around, followed by groups of men and boys trying to touch my wife (who was dressed modestly with legs and shoulders covered), followed by aggression when either she or I voiced our displeasure with this, we gave up trying to sight-see and spent the rest of our vacation in the hotel."
- ItsSupperHans
Bradford, UK
"It just doesn't have a lot going for it, unfortunately. The sort of place where when people find out you are from out of town, they ask what you are doing there, but not in a sort of cheery, 'Oh, what are you here for?' way, but a 'Seriously, why have you chosen to come here?' way. Not very welcoming."
- BobBobBobBobBobDave
Stockton, California
"Stockton, CA. The McDonald's had an armed security guy."
- KalSethMoran
"Growing up, my dad was a crime scene investigator for the DOJ (Department of Justice) and covered all of Northern California. Like, the entire top half of the state. And most of the time when he’d get called, if it was a homicide, he’d be going to Stockton."
- DancesWithPibbles
Atlantic City, New Jersey
"Atlantic City, NJ, if I can help it."
- GoPhinessGo
"Atlantic City is just bizarre. It feels like a run-down smallish city, but it's weirdly dotted with glitzy casinos. It's like Vegas and Scranton got drunk one night and made a really strange baby."
- full_of_ghosts
South Beach, Florida
"I don't need to go back to Miami, or at least to South Beach. My husband and I went last year and it was a little bit of a nightmare. We always find fun together, so it was still a good vacation, but I'd rather spend money elsewhere."
- loudlittle
"As someone that grew up in Miami, my biggest recommendation for visitors is to do just about anything but go to South Beach."
"Miami has a lot of really cool areas but they’re not tourist hot spots. You’ll have a much better time, in my opinion, hitting up the bars in the gables than going to Wynwood, for example."
- TheMightyYule
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
"Dubai. It features so much about what I don't like about humanity. All money and no substance."
- zordabo
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
"Ashgabat. Glad I went, but creepy. Total authoritarian dear leader surveillance state. Basically can’t leave the hotel unless escorted. Bad food."
"Utterly fascinating, but I can totally scratch it off my list of 'been there, done that.'"
- timpdx
Mobile, Alabama
"Mobile, Alabama. There was a palpable aura of anger and resentment in that town that I'll never forget."
- Casual-Notice
Manila, Philippines
"Manila. The traffic, the pollution, the poverty."
- blacks11
"I'm from the Philippines, and dude, I also hate it there. I'm a province guy. I remember one time I rented an inn there, and the smell literally gave me culture shock. The sink was full of cigarette butts and the bed was cockroach-ridden. I was never able to sleep. I rather stay here in the forest with my fairy friends."
- rupleix
Hollywood
"Hollywood, specifically Hollywood Boulevard. It's really janky, the whole town kind of smells, and it's just wholly disappointing."
- rancidtuna
Gary, Indiana
"Gary, Indiana. Should be self-explanatory."
- No-Strawberry-5541
"Gary is fine, during the day. You can drive through there without much issue. But at night? If you have to go through there, treat every stop sign as a rolling stop and just never stop."
"The place is rundown and has been for decades, since the main source of income, left town. Now it's just, people who are too poor to move anywhere else. It's an all too common story in the US."
- KikiFlowers
Nassau, Bahamas
"Nassau, Bahamas. Absolutely horrible. The place is extremely run down. Locals don’t leave you alone and don’t take no for an answer."
"No, I don’t want to buy a wooden flute from the 90s. No, I don’t want to buy D&G sunglasses from China for $80."
"I don't know, maybe I had a bad experience, but I’ll never go back to the Bahamas, at least Nassau."
- rodman666
While traveling is a tremendous experience, there are always going to be some destinations that are disappointing for some, and a reason to never visit again for others.
The best plan is to travel as much as you can, and keep mixing it up, so you can see as many destinations and cultures as you can in a lifetime.