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There are way too many things in life that seem like they should be a breeze – easy to find, easier to execute, and nothing to worry about – but when you actually encounter them yourself, they turn out to be surprisingly hard.
If you want some examples (so you can prepare yourself going forward), these 15 people have some pretty excellent ideas based on their own life experience.
15. Hello, fellow anxiety-sufferer.
Sending an email.
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14. They want you to think it’s easy.
Finding a job.
There was an article like a week ago about some lady who’s applied to 200 jobs and hasn’t heard back from any of them despite them all allegedly being so desperate to find help.
The actual process of applying is so f**king draining. I hate having to do like a Meyers-Briggs personality test for an hour just to apply to be a fucking cashier. Had one job application literally have a question that was like “I believe politicians always tell the truth – agree, somewhat agree, neutral, somewhat disagree, disagree”.
Like what the f**k does that question have to do with using a cash register??
13. It’s a fine line.
Speaking to people in a direct and honest way that is tactful and polite.
Polite people seem to think being honest and direct is rude, “brutally honest” people (read: a$$holes) think that the only way not to be deceitful is to act like someone with no ability for empathy or functional human communication.
People, it’s really not that hard.
12. That would require the government to update their software.
Federal income tax returns.
You should simply verify your income, declare zero spurious income and sign off. It should also be available electronically and FREE!
11. And yet we keep buying them.
Anything having to do with fitted sheets.
10. It’s a full time job.
anything related to health insurance.
my wife gave birth a few months ago, and she has great health insurance. But we’re now receiving bill after bill, indicating we owe tons of money. And the problem is that there are different kinds of coverages based on the reason for visit pre and post birth, and so she’s on the phone literally every single day gonig over every single bill we’re receiving.
And even if her insurance does end up covering the bill, it’s only after hours of being on the phone.
9. Keeping mechanics in business.
Changing the headlamp in a car.
In our old 07 Focus the process was simple, the execution was made difficult.
Awkward spot and there was a small jagged piece of metal sticking out somewhere. I could change it, but would always end up with a bloodied hand.
8. It can be rough, for sure.
Getting out of bed.
7. Inefficiency everywhere.
Anything involving court.
It could really be more efficient, but I think it is purposely made inefficient so that people won’t want to do it and have to have extra fees.
6. Some parents aren’t worthy.
Getting a parent removed from an account that was joint because you were a minor. They know your birthday it should not require a bunch of notarized forms.
I’ve had this hassle since my mother passed. I added her when she was alive, and am not allowed to remove her without a notorized death certificate. Which I never got between my brother and my step-father.
5. Sticky hands every single time.
Opening a fruit cup without spilling it everywhere.
Thanks for filling it all the way, that’s cool but an eight of an inch clearance would be nice.
4. Not worth the time.
Printing labels.
Why can’t the computer find the printer? Now it found the printer but it still won’t print for some reason.
Ok I restarted the printer and now it’ll print, but it pulled from drawer 1 instead of the manual feed.
Ok it pulled from the manual feed now but it jammed the printer.
Ok I unjammed the printer, but it pulled the paper slightly crooked and now the first letter of every label is cut off.
F**k it, that will have to do. I just lost an hour and I got other s*%t to do.
3. It makes us see red.
Finding pockets on women’s clothing.
2. It’s never gonna happen.
Getting people to mind their own business.
1. It’s so complicated they make you think it’s not worth it.
Unsubscribing from things and canceling services.
For example: gym memberships, mailed catalogs, internet services, credit cards, all of the ridiculous things that are adopting subscription based sales models.
Just about everything I can think of has a subscription based model at this point from razors to cat food to frozen smoothies and ALL of them have flaming hoops you have to jump through to cancel service.
Yeah, life can really take you by surprise sometimes, right?
What’s something you didn’t expect to be as hard as it turned out to be? If it’s not on this list, drop it in our comments!
