If you’ve ever had something ruined because of someone else’s thoughtless actions, you’re in the right place.
Unfortunately, it seems like it happens to all of us. In one Reddit thread (which you can see here), people shared the perfectly good things that have been ruined by a small group of “idiots,” and I honestly have second-hand annoyance after reading these.
Ahead, I’ve rounded up 18 different responses – let’s see if you can relate to any of these on this list:
1.
“Years ago, Long John Silver’s would donate their excess food to a local shelter. One idiot tried to get rich by suing the chain, saying the donated food was tampered with, even alleging it was purposeful to kill the homeless population. The case went nowhere, but it made all the local restaurants hesitant to donate, and now none of them donate any food at all.”
2.
“A few losers in the senior class before us took beer and booze on their senior trip, hiding it in shampoo containers in their luggage. They got drunk and found out, and all senior school trips were cancelled, starting with ours, the class of 1983. Thanks assholes of ‘82.”
3.
“I went to see the Godzilla head up close on top of a hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It’s been closed indefinitely because some people were climbing on it and causing too many safety issues. One eventually fell, so we could only look through a window instead. Lame. It was still pretty cool, but fuck those guys.”
4.
“Thrifting. It used to be a place to find reasonably priced items. Now, too many people use it as a way to flip items.”
5.
“Thieves and scammers at retail stores. More and more stuff is being locked up, and you have to jump through hoops to return a broken product.”
6.
“In Japan, a couple of teenage hooligans went to a Kaitenzushi chain (conveyor-belt sushi) and started licking the sushi and condiments while leaving them on the conveyor belt, all the while filming this for TikTok. Now, half of all the Kaitenzushi chains have outright stopped having the sushi on the conveyor belt to be taken.”
7.
“When I was growing up, the electric company would offer free lightbulbs to customers. A local business complained that he wasn’t selling any bulbs as a result, so no more free bulbs for anyone.”
8.
“In Sweden, one family let their young daughter play freely in a graveyard, including climbing very old headstones, one of which fell and killed her. This resulted in the government starting a project to secure all gravestones nationwide. All registered graveowners had to pay for this. Cost me 3000 Euro.”
9.
“Going unsupervised to amusement parks as a kid or a teenager. Here in Southern California, Knotts used to allow teenagers and kids to come and hang out as they pleased.”
10.
“Every single fandom subreddit eventually gets taken over by a small contingent of toxic fans/trolls driving out anyone wanting to have a normal discussion, just by attrition alone. Video game, movie, show, book – it doesn’t matter, eventually it turns into this hate echo chamber over the smallest bs, and people have to create separate subreddits just to share normal opinions that aren’t regurgitated hate.”
11.
“Collecting as a hobby. I want to collect Pokémon cards because I like the art and love collecting cards of my favorites. Scalpers completely ruined that.”
12.
“Vending machines in schools. They used to be in the common areas, end of a hallway, strategically placed outside near eating areas, obviously the cafeteria. They weren’t all super junky food; there were some nice bagged salads and healthier drinks than sodas. Our school specifically had ginger tea, honey lemon iced tea, and hibiscus tea.”
13.
“Bad dog owners. The ones who don’t clean up after their dogs. The ones who let their dogs destroy rental properties. The ones that let their dogs bark. The ones that don’t train them. Dogs get banned from so many places because of bad dog owners and when people like me, who pick up after their dogs, train them, control them, can’t take their dogs to certain parks, or when I was young had trouble finding places to rent because of people who didn’t train their dogs.”
14.
“The Bells Manor in Newport, RI. One of the largest and oldest abandoned mansions in the U.S, it was part of Brenton Point State Park. Three teenagers decided to hop the fence and go exploring on the roof, and to everyone’s shock, the roof collapsed and the kids got injured. One of their fathers, presumably named Lucius Malfoy, decided to try to sue the state. So rather than go through that, the state tore down the building entirely.”
15.
“A lot of archeological tourism sites like the Egyptian pyramids and Machu Picchu. People kept taking pieces as mementos. Now they won’t even let you get close to a lot of these.”
16.
“The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie sequels. The first movie was incredible, but too many parents complained about the movie being too dark and violent for kids (it isn’t), so we got two progressively terrible, slapstick, nonsensical sequels, and no TMNT movie since has ever come close to matching the first one.”
17.
“The LL Bean slipper exchange policy. I had one pair for ten years, and they finally ripped. I went to exchange them, and they said they don’t do that anymore because of the abuse of it.”
18.
And finally, “The lazy jerks who couldn’t stay productive when working from home. They’ve basically ruined the only positive thing that came out of the pandemic.”
What else belongs on this list? Let me know in the comments!
