The Funniest Times People Got Confused Between Items In Different Hands
As humans, we are far from perfect, and sometimes, the mistakes we make are utterly hilarious, if not also embarrassing.
The worst part is how unexplainable some of our mistakes tend to be, especially when we're holding multiple items in our hands and manage to mix them up.
Redditor DanielMichels decided it would be fun to collect stories of these mix-ups:
"What is the worst thing you have done because you got confused between items in different hands?"
Just Go With It
"​I grabbed my banana instead of the conductor's baton on the music stand as I began conducting the orchestra and chorus during a rehearsal."
"The musicians followed the banana very well as if it were intentional on my part (some thought the curve aided in making the performance more expressive)."
- Back2Bach
"This was my brother, but I was on the receiving end. We were at a country club for a wedding one evening and there were various backgammon games set up. This happened so long ago that I don’t even remember how to play backgammon anymore."
"But it was my brother's turn and he was excited. So excited he slammed his glass of bourbon down on the game board and thrust the dice cup full of dice into his mouth."
"It was totally worth being covered in watered-down liquor to witness such buffoonery."
- theWildBore
A Beautiful Creation Until...
"I drank paint water and whilst washing my brush in my cup of tea."
"Two simultaneous f**kups."
- ScoutManDan
"I was drinking red wine and painting with a container of red paint the same size as the glass. I DRANK THE PAINT!"
- NikkiSnippets
The Things That Have Been Thrown Away
"I threw my keys into the recycle bin and attempted to start my truck with a crushed Monster can."
- DevilWitcher128
"My husband cleans the cat litterbox and puts the gleanings in a tied-off plastic grocery bag. He also puts his lunch in a tied-off plastic grocery bag."
"When he goes to work he takes both bags outside, one to come with him and one for the trash can. Mistakes have happened."
- AoiRenga
"I cracked an egg, poured out the egg into the trash, and put the shell into a bowl."
- BanjoBroseph
"A friend of mine once put the remote control in the oven and then wondered why he found himself in the living room holding a sausage."
"The remote control was destroyed. And it had previously spent several days in the back of a freezer because of a similar incident."
- ledow
"A couple of minutes ago, I unwrapped a stick of gum, stuck the wrapper in my mouth, and threw the gum in the trash."
- StylishSundae
Hilarious Mental Glitches
"I once picked up my toothbrush and then instead of picking up toothpaste, I picked up a tube of cortisone. I luckily caught myself. I also once picked up a razor instead of a toothbrush and just stared at it."
"Another time I poured water on the floor instead of in the sink. Just imagine someone standing facing away from the sink, angling their glass of water downwards and just staring at the stream of water hitting the floor."
"My mom has done the same but poured the glass of water into a dog cage my cat was chilling in. Cat didn't move but stared at her like, 'What the f**k?'"
- FavouriteParasite
"Lol (laughing out loud), I was writing and eating French fries and took a bite out of my pen."
- inglorious_tardbas
"When I was 10, I was watching TV and had the remote in one hand and a cup of hot tea in the other."
"My dad came in and asked for the remote. Instead of tossing him the remote, I threw my cup of tea, and it when all over him."
"The next morning his chest and legs were red."
- Firewolf_anna
So Many Coffee Woes
"I had a cup of coffee and a little single-serve container of coffee cream. I opened the cream container, poured its contents into the trash, and then dropped the empty container into my coffee."
"What?"
- CalgaryAlly
"Before-coffee fugue is a real problem. The other day I tore open a packet of sweetener and almost poured it into the trash. Then I took the milk out of the fridge, got coffee in the mug successfully, and went to put milk in the fridge without pouring any."
"I realized and then opened it and almost poured milk into the bottom shelves of the fridge."
- SusanCalvinsRBF
Always Check the Fridge
"Why is it that so much stuff ends up in the fridge? My boyfriend starts there when I'm looking for something. I've placed toothpaste, empty milk jugs, keys, and way more in there."
- ElfjieTinkerbell
"The fridge is my default place to look for missing items. I put my baby’s powdered milk in the fridge by accident I couldn’t find it anywhere and my cousin had to fetch me some more so I could feed the baby. I found it the next morning when I was making myself a coffee. I also find the tv remote in there too sometimes."
- B***h_Is_Taken
Some of these were gross or painfully hilarious, and some were just funny.
Either way, it's a reminder that we're all human, we all make silly mistakes, and it's totally okay to laugh at ourselves sometimes.
Has this ever happened to you? Let us know in the comment below!
90's music lovers will undoubtedly remember Monica lamenting about how it was Just One Of Them Days... and 13-year-old me absolutely thought I felt that in my soul. Turns out I had no idea how bad "those days" could get.
Now that I've gotten a few more years under my belt I've had more of an opportunity to screw stuff up. Badly. Epicly. Bigly. Fantastically. Just wrong straight out of the gate.
You guys know the days I mean? The days where you barely make it out of bed and you're already messing things up? The days when you start out on the wrong foot and just never find the right one? The kinds of days that make you realize just how far the depths of your own capacity for crap really go?
Those days you almost feel like magic - but not in a good way. In the "bumbling wizard working with a broken wand, a stutter, and an anxiety disorder" kind of way. Like all your magic only makes things worse.
Or at least I do.
Reddit user Trxxi asked:
What have you f-ed up already today?
And yeah... solidarity my brethren, sistren, and otherkin. We are some seriously talented screw ups. Round of applause for us.
Snooze Solutions
GiphySnooze button. On 3 different devices.
- scoyne15
Alarm clock xtreme. You can set it so you can't snooze more than a specified number of times, and have to solve math problems to cut the alarm off.
Even on hard difficulty, I just ended up memorizing the problems after a while. I just have the nest thermostat heat my room to 80°F every morning. Smokes me out of the covers lol.
- rm4m
A Morning Full Of Cringe
A teacher whose name I don't even know at my son's daycare said "Bye, love you too" to me after I told my son "Love you buddy, have a good day" on my way out, so I'm pretty sure she's had a morning full of cringe.
Work Schedules
I'm 2 hours late to work. So, yes.
40 minutes early to work. Can't clock in yet.
Locked Out And Lunchless
I lost my wallet in my apartment somewhere, and we swipe our student ID's to get into the apartment, so I'm locked out. Can't get lunch for the same reason.
There is no amount of awake that will make me good at math.
That's why every time I used it it just ended up with my wife screaming at me to turn off that racket and me yelling back "what's 13 X 22?!"
To be fair it did wake me up.
Awkward Emails
I sent out an email to over 100 people with some info on it. Thought I messed up, so replied all saying "hey xyz was wrong!". Then realized it was actually right, so had to send a third email saying " actually xyz was right the first time". I hate doing stuff like that.
- Bmc00
I have a really bad habit of typing an email "please see attached" before actually adding the attachment. I've sent a lot of emails like this, usually noticing right away, and resending. I was emailing a resume once, said "please see attached resume", and of course didn't send it. They told me as much in their next email. I responded with something like. "Sorry for the inconvenience, I should have looked more carefully before sending that email. Please see attached resume." I didn't attach the resume. Again.
I didn't get the job.
- raktoe
Oops
I got halfway through a clif bar before I realized it expired in 2018. My stomach is making interesting noises.
Lunch With Mom
Took a 500mg edible and forgot I'm meeting my mom for lunch in an hour. Should be interesting!
Panicked And Hung Up
A telephone interview. Panicked at being unable to answer the technical questions (not even particularly difficult ones, my mind just went blank), and hung up. Too embarrassed to get in contact to apologize.
- Crailas
The Hive
GiphyFound a bee hive the wall of my house. I thought it was a good idea to DIY extermination. Sprayed bee killer into the hole. They attacked...I screamed and fell over a folding table by the couch. Luckily, only stung 3 times. Once on my neck and twice in my arm. TIL not a good idea to spray bee killer inside the house because they only got one way to go.
Edit: After doing some research these are probably yellow jackets or wasps and they are flying everywhere in my living room now. I think I might have just made them mad and not killed very many.
- kceezie
Backpack Guy
Almost everything, I accidentally swapped backpacks with someone with the same backpack. MY BIOLOGY PROJECT IS IN MY BACKPACK, ALSO MY GEOMETRY AND GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK. Other then that it's really nice, hope I find this guy.
Mom Life
I had to take my son to the pediatrician in my pajamas because I forgot about the appointment. Luckily my phone reminded me and I wound up late, but I made it. He peed through his clothes and I didn't have any spare. Woo! Mom life.
Unsuspecting Salsa
Instead of flicking it in reverse, I drove my forklift forward into an unsuspecting palette of Mild El Paso Salsa.
With all the glass and chunks of tomato, a small section of the warehouse now looks like a low budget horror scene.
A Meeting At Noon
I had to be downtown for a meeting at noon. I fell asleep after coming back from the gym. I wake up at 1105. I hop in the shower, get dressed, and start hauling it downtown. I make with about 10 minutes to spare. As I'm walking to the building, I check my phone to double check the location. The meeting is tomorrow.
Dribble
GiphyTook a sip of coffee walking to class and I passed another student. Made eye contact, the guy smiled, I decided to smile back and in the process dribbled coffee out of my mouth and onto my shirt. He saw. There's coffee on my shirt.
We all have bad moments, bad days, bad phases in life. It's been said that everyone is the villain in someone's story - and sometimes we are the villain even in our own.
We've all had those situations where things seemed like a great idea - until we actually do them and then realize it's a total disaster. (For a lot of us, that idea was a relationship, don't even lie.)
Seemingly bright ideas gone wrong are pretty much the premise for some of the most popular clip shows, and every sitcom episode ever.
Reddit user MercyMeOhMy asked:
What was your "it seemed like a good idea at the time" story?
Yeah ... half of these stories would be perfect in an episode of your favorite TV shows; but you know what they say - you can't write this stuff. Real life is far more ridiculous than anything fiction writers can come up with.
In my family we have something of a mantra: "If you're going to be dumb, you gotta be tough." It's the kind of thing that you wish you didn't have to say, but kids (and teenagers and my brother) have a way of just bringing it out of you.
There have been shenanigans aplenty from all of us. Some of you who follow my work may know about my Indiana Jones facial scar. My brother once knocked himself unconscious because he was convinced he could emulate a scene from Moral Kombat. (Spoiler Alert: He could not.) Grandma burned down the kitchen cooking fish. My sister knocked herself out doing choreography in the shower. Let's just say we're a family full of "tough" people.
Reddit user m0na-l1sa asked:
What is the stupidest thing you have ever done?
Yeah ... there are a lot of "tough" folks in these comments. Kick back (cautiously, please) and enjoy the disasters.