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It can be quite easy to misuse objects if you're not familiar with the design. Even things that are obvious in hindsight – for example, the tab on a soda can being used to hold a straw, are rarely known until they are pointed out.
However, some things are obvious full stop. Like chucking your clothes in a microwave to dry, or ironing a cheese sandwich. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, is a series of times when people totally misused common household objects, either knowingly or not, with hilarious consequences. Scroll down below to check out what we mean, and tell us your own stories in the comments!
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#1
I once had a friend casually say “you know how when you run out of toilet paper, so you just use a sock or whatever?” No the f**k I do not, Sandra, Jesus Christ.
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#2
Coworker decided to boil her sausages (her lunch) in the office's electric kettle, therefore causing it to overflow, to leak on the electrical outlet and to cause a blackout for our whole entire floor (150 people). Not to mention the murder / baptism (?) of our brand new carpet.
Final score:
170points
#3
I was doing a internship in a small office and the engineer (yeah he is engineer) needed to take out the trash from the trash bin (it had a plastic bag with the trash) . He open a new plastic bag (I though it was to replace the old full one) and asked my help to hold it while he threw all the trash from the bin to the new plastic bag instead of just take the trash from the old plastic bag and replace for the new one. I was so confused...
#4
I did not witness it but my grandma had used a vibrator as a massaging stick for her back pain because the box had stated 'massage stick'. The way we found out was hilarious though.
When we visited her one day she started telling how she went to the shop where she bought her massage stick and asked the boy to change the batteries. She did not understand why the boy had refused and why he acted weird. Then she asked my mom if she could change the batteries and gave my mom the vibrator. I still feel sorry for the kid behind the counter at the shop.
#5
Walked into my sister's room and she had maxi pads laying everywhere with Barbie's on top. She's like, look at all these Barbie sleeping bags I found.
#6
I caught a friend of mine rubbing one of the antibacterial hand wipes from KFC all over his friends chicken. The little packet said 'a hint of lemon' on it, and he thought that he was meant to flavour the chicken with it...
#7
Using my fabric shears to cut wire and plastic packaging. And now he's butthurt that my new fabric shears have a padlock through the handles.
#8
When I was a kid, my mother used a pasta spoon to clean the cat litter box. I thought this was normal because it was the only way I'd ever seen it used. Then, years after our cat died, I was eating dinner at a friend's house when the mom grabbed the same kind of utensil to serve spaghetti. I freaked out and shouted "why are you serving food with a poop scoop?!" They were so confused and I couldn't eat my dinner because I was so disturbed.
#9
I caught a roommate cleaning our bathroom counter top with the toilet brush.
He's a doctor now.
#10
Man, I threw a major fit when I saw a visiting relative get my $100 chefs knife to screw a screw.
What's the big deal? - he asked. Well... if you gotta ask...
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Ye. Get this. Been married twice, and both husbands twisted the sharp pointy ends of ALL my best sharp kitchen knives. I know I am not alone here. We did have toolkits, but they had to go to the shed. ALL THE WAY TO THE SHED. Lol. Memories eh?
#11
My wife once watched a girl at work stick a ball of aluminum into a microwave with her instant ramen during a break. She said, "the Sparks are just because it's heating up faster," as if it were common knowledge.
#12
My mom's coworker (or maybe even her ex boss) used the plastic page protectors for office binders in a wrong way. The page protectors have only one opening on top as everyone knows, but she would always turn them upside down and then used a billion of paperclips on the bottom to prevent papers from falling out.
#13
Girlfriends brother using my $125 chef's knife to chop ice.
I did make a scene.
got rid of both.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I'm imagining a gruesome kitchen knife murder now. Was this written from prison?
#14
This was a story that a colleague told me that happened on the day I was off back in the day I used to work for a hotel.
Apparently some Chinese guests came to reception to complain that the microwave wasn't working. We didn't have microwaves in the room, so when coming to inspect the problem, she found out that they were trying to microwave a pizza... in the room's safe.
#16
Not really an everyday thing unless youre a tradesman, but ive seen wayyy too many people try to pound screws in with a hammer.
StinkyMonkey 5 years ago
I once caught my sister trying to hammer a screw into a wall using a plastic hair brush.
#17
My friends kid decided to make a grilled cheese sandwich with an iron on the couch. Burned a nice iron shaped hole in the couch. Kid was 15 at the time.
#18
When I was very young I used to think that you had to wedge your entire butt into the toilet seat when you have a s**t. Moment of learning came when we went on holiday somewhere and were exploring the house, I saw the toilet with a much smaller seat than ours and said "that's so small, how am I gonna fit in that to poop?" Needless to say it provided some enjoyment for my parents
#19
A friend of mine was a first generation migrant to my country and her parents had a dishwasher in their house, but due to never having had one in their home country, saw it as a wasteful appliance to use. So they stored clean pots and pans in it, just like another cabinet.
#20
I used to live 2 doors down from the neighborhoods "crazy lady' and she would often vaccuum her grass after it was mowed.
#21
I didn't witness this, but I read it in a newspaper article a few years ago.
It was this article about life-hacks, and such, and basically what happened was, there was this "hack" going around about how, if you put your toaster on its side, slide in two slices of bread with cheese on top and toast them, you get toast and grilled cheese all at once.
Apparently, this lady tried it and the melting cheese set her toaster on fire. The whole thing went up and nearly burned her entire house down.
#22
My high school spanish teacher would use her computer’s disk tray as a shelf for her coffee mug
#23
I once witnessed a dude washing out condoms and hanging them to dry.
#24
My dad's old boss asked a dishwasher at work to wash his car. One hour later the boss goes to look at his brand new BMW and the guy had used a pot scourer ( that metal thing used to clean stuff dunno if that's right word "
Needless to say my dad's boss screamed and that guy ran so far he was never seen again.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Some people just don't know how to say "no" with words, so they find other ways.
#25
Saw a woman using an Oyster card (it’s a London bus pass the same size and material as a credit card) as a sort of spoon to eat a lasagna out of a Tupperware on the bus
#26
I have a tiny computer that is extraordinarily powerful, fits in my hand, and has access to the sum total of all human knowledge since the dawn of time, and I use it to watch funny animal videos.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
That's a line from a comedian, but he said we using it to watch funny cat videos & porn.
#27
My wife routinely uses butter knives as flat screwdrivers. I once caught her using an ice cream scoop as a hammer. We've talked about it, I bought her tools. Now she keeps an old shitty butter knife in the back of the drawer for fast easy battery changes and uses a hammer as a hammer.
#28
Used to work in a hotel as well. Several times we had Asian guests hang their clothes to dry from the fire sprinklers hanging from their room ceilings... this sets the sprinklers off and caused thousands of dollars of damage to multiple rooms each time it happened. One family was mad at US and wanted compensation for all their wet clothes and electronics. Maybe not applicable here, but we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room.
Cactuar Jon 5 years ago
"we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room" - here in the UK, that's totally acceptable. But the question is... Did he get his tea bags???
#29
When was the last time you put gloves inside the gloves box of your car?
#30
One time I saw someone eat Cheetos with a fork. Does that count?
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
I eat many things with silverware to avoid getting dirty fingers, even though most people wouldn't do so, so why not cheetos?
#31
Not sure if it counts but I've seen a person to use his phone to take a picture of a comment on his youtube video, take a screenshot of the picture, print it and use his webcamera to show the print of the comment in another youtube video, made solely to reply to said comment.
My brain still hurts
What do you think ?
Daria Z 5 years ago
I used my boyfriend's razor to cut the pilling off my hoodies. The razor blunted and I had to get him a new one :)
Kusotare 5 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, everything else begins to look like a nail.
Cassie 5 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, you need to get a few more tools. XD
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Sometimes I wonder why we have developed so slowly as a civilisation, then I see things like this and remember.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Not really a misuse of anything, just somewhat odd. We have a second bathroom downstairs with a closet in it. We store food in it. So whenever you're on the toilet, you can stare at bottles of salad dressing and cans of chick peas.
Cassie 5 years ago
Flushing the toilet causes and aerosol effect, landing fecal matter up to six feet from the toilet. I hope you all always close your toilet before flushing and the food is far enough away to avoid contamination.
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Pacifico Fernandez 5 years ago
I brought an electrical kettle at work. My only colleague (I really had only one person to work with) made a homegrown herbal tea (i.e. big herbal branches) directly inside it. Then, he left the tea there for the whole weekend. Did not even apologize.
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
I work in an ER, we have had patients call 911 to complain about the wait times
Cassie 5 years ago
I was once a patient in an ER across from a guy in because he had two fishhooks in his hand. He had tried to remove the first fishhook with the second fishhook.
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Alexandra Hughes 5 years ago
I had a roommate in college who asked if you had to empty the water out of the toilet to clean it. I was so very tempted to say yes....
Jesper Rasmussen 5 years ago
Funny how people use coca cola for all sorts of things other than drinking. There are products made for cleaning toilets and removing rust that work a lot better!
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It probably makes u eat it slower too so it'd be more filling....I wish I had your level of self control Lol!
Load More Replies... Tamera Gardner 5 years ago
I was horrified when I saw my mother-in-law put a live gecko in the sink disposal and flip the switch on. 😳😳😳
C Hypercube 5 years ago
Alright. I got one that happened to me. I was at a street cafe, and I ordered a cappuccino. It must have been thousands of coffees before this one in hundreds of bars/restaurants from the worst to the most luxurious, but this time it was the first time I got served a glass of water. A tiny glass. And I think to myself " ah that's nice... So you can keep the tablespoon clean after you mix the coffee"....so I placed the tablespoon in the glass after mixing. Sorry...
razan youssef 5 years ago
in our house we call push pins pockieys, said poke ees, and once in 3rd grade I found a push pin and said to my teacher "I found a pockiey!" SO embarrassing
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I got a new outfit on my 7th birthday, wore it to school and told everyone all day I was wearing my birthday suit! No one corrected me XD
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Daria Z 5 years ago
I used my boyfriend's razor to cut the pilling off my hoodies. The razor blunted and I had to get him a new one :)
Kusotare 5 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, everything else begins to look like a nail.
Cassie 5 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, you need to get a few more tools. XD
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Sometimes I wonder why we have developed so slowly as a civilisation, then I see things like this and remember.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Not really a misuse of anything, just somewhat odd. We have a second bathroom downstairs with a closet in it. We store food in it. So whenever you're on the toilet, you can stare at bottles of salad dressing and cans of chick peas.
Cassie 5 years ago
Flushing the toilet causes and aerosol effect, landing fecal matter up to six feet from the toilet. I hope you all always close your toilet before flushing and the food is far enough away to avoid contamination.
Load More Replies... Pacifico Fernandez 5 years ago
I brought an electrical kettle at work. My only colleague (I really had only one person to work with) made a homegrown herbal tea (i.e. big herbal branches) directly inside it. Then, he left the tea there for the whole weekend. Did not even apologize.
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
I work in an ER, we have had patients call 911 to complain about the wait times
Cassie 5 years ago
I was once a patient in an ER across from a guy in because he had two fishhooks in his hand. He had tried to remove the first fishhook with the second fishhook.
Load More Replies... Alexandra Hughes 5 years ago
I had a roommate in college who asked if you had to empty the water out of the toilet to clean it. I was so very tempted to say yes....
Jesper Rasmussen 5 years ago
Funny how people use coca cola for all sorts of things other than drinking. There are products made for cleaning toilets and removing rust that work a lot better!
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It probably makes u eat it slower too so it'd be more filling....I wish I had your level of self control Lol!
Load More Replies... Tamera Gardner 5 years ago
I was horrified when I saw my mother-in-law put a live gecko in the sink disposal and flip the switch on. 😳😳😳
C Hypercube 5 years ago
Alright. I got one that happened to me. I was at a street cafe, and I ordered a cappuccino. It must have been thousands of coffees before this one in hundreds of bars/restaurants from the worst to the most luxurious, but this time it was the first time I got served a glass of water. A tiny glass. And I think to myself " ah that's nice... So you can keep the tablespoon clean after you mix the coffee"....so I placed the tablespoon in the glass after mixing. Sorry...
razan youssef 5 years ago
in our house we call push pins pockieys, said poke ees, and once in 3rd grade I found a push pin and said to my teacher "I found a pockiey!" SO embarrassing
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I got a new outfit on my 7th birthday, wore it to school and told everyone all day I was wearing my birthday suit! No one corrected me XD
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