Photos That Show What Can Happen When Someone Is Easily Distracted

As far as multitasking goes, mowing while listening to music is a fairly easy one. You just have to be careful to make sure that your phone is secure while you’re riding along or pushing the mower. This guy was mowing the grass and only noticed that something was wrong when his music suddenly stopped playing. You can see the results in this photo. His phone was totally and completely destroyed. 

While it hurts to think about how much it will cost this person to fix their car radio, at least there’s a pretty rational reason behind it being destroyed. A spider was crawling across the screen when this person saw it and threw their water bottle at it. Honestly, those are some pretty quick reflexes. They’re actually probably too quick since this person’s brain didn’t really have a chance to think everything through. 

We aren’t sure if this person was actually multitasking while they were driving, but we hope not. Either way, their really nice car was probably ruined after they drove it straight into wet cement. Not only that but the car actually sunk into the concrete after it got stuck. We would say that they should’ve paid more attention to the warning signs, but there don’t appear to be any in this photo. 

For many, their cars are almost like extensions of themselves. So, getting a new roof rack is kind of like wearing a new ring or necklace. Sometimes it just takes a while to get used to. This person wasn’t quite used to having a new $5,000 bike on the top of their car and completely forgot about it when they were pulling up into their garage. The result was not good. 

Sometimes, it can be a pain to order things online, especially when the photos are a bit misleading. That said, most products have dimensions listed so that you don’t end up in a situation like this. Someone ordered a new rug online and when it got to them, they found out that it wasn’t even big enough for their small dog to use. It’s super tiny and looks more like it belongs in a doll house. 

Someone spotted this while they were waiting in a Burger King drive-through in Ohio. It looks like a contractor or an employee got to the last line of bricks on one side of the wall and just decided to call it a day. However, the upper part of the wall was still painted white, so maybe it really was just an honest mistake, and nobody noticed it at the time. 

This person must’ve been really in the zone when they were working on their laptop because they didn’t even notice that a staple was scratching it up. Also, just what were they doing on there that made their laptop move around so much? We can’t imagine anyone typing away that vigorously while they’re working or even playing a game. But we guess it doesn’t matter as the bottom of the laptop is ruined either way. 

Someone on the marketing team really messed up badly here. The sign on the back of the bus looks completely normal, but it’s missing maybe the most crucial part: an actual number for potential clients to call. Luckily, someone could probably easily find these lawyers online and just give them a call that way. However, we imagine that these lawyers probably would much rather people call as soon as they see the sign. 

This is definitely not the best way to start your day. Someone posted that they woke up and had to get ready in the dark. This resulted in them brushing their teeth with Icyhot instead of toothpaste. We imagine the feeling might’ve been similar to using regular toothpaste right up until it didn’t stop getting hotter. We also imagine that using regular toothpaste after this would’ve made the pain worse. 

Out of all the washing mistakes you could make, we’ve never seen anything quite like this. Someone accidentally knocked a roll of toilet paper into the washer, and t dissolved all over the clothes. So, if you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you washed an entire roll of toilet paper, then here is your answer. It just ends up looking like a thick powder by the time the washer is done.

You can probably relate to this photo if you’ve ever tried to write something down or were typing while listening in on a nearby conversation. Someone was listening to their parents talk about a new fridge and accidentally ended up writing down that Germany turned itself into a fridge at the end of World War I. As we said before, multitasking is hard, especially when you’re trying to focus intensely.

We honestly feel really bad for whoever baked this cake. Someone gave them a flash drive that contained the photo they wanted to have on the cake. However, the baker just used an image of the thumb drive she received. The baker was probably thinking that having a cake with an image of a thumb drive sounded really weird but the two things just never clicked in their head. 

We’ve all been there at one point. Whenever you’re just sitting in class and the teacher is going over something while you’re sitting there daydreaming or just staring off into space. That’s what this person was doing, but they also happened to be running their pen up and down their pants while they were doing so. They said that they didn’t realize that the top of the pen was off at the time. 

Okay, we honestly can’t even blame this person for putting an unopened package of paper into this printer. If you’ve never used a large printer, they can be really intimidating at first. However, if we had to guess then we’d guess that they were just spacing out a bit while they were loading it and forgot to unwrap the paper. The person called their coworker over to help and the coworker found the printer like this. 

There are two types of students out there: those that couldn’t care less about a test and those that get so nervous they forget how to write their own last names. You can probably guess what kind of student the test in this photo belonged to. A teacher posted it after realizing that their student misspelled their own last name. However, the student did end up passing the test with flying colors. 

Forgetting to roll up your window just about anywhere can be a recipe for disaster, especially so if you live in a place that receives a lot of snow. Unfortunately for this person, mother nature doesn’t care if you’re a little bit absent-minded, and she went on ahead and filled this car up with snow anyway. We can’t imagine how difficult this is going to be to get completely clean and dry.

This one took us a second to figure out what was going on, but the diner who took this photo caught the mistake immediately. Whoever put the images of sushi on this menu accidentally used stock photos of USB sushi. Honestly, we can’t really blame them, either. Like, why do images of USB sushi even exist in the first place? Who is ever going to need something like that? 

Whoever made this bread dough must’ve really been multitasking whenever they were mixing ingredients because this is a lot of dough to prepare. We couldn’t even see a restaurant mixing up this much dough, and that’s probably why they ended up throwing most of it away. However, the bread dough rose so much that it spilled out of the trashcan and onto the street. Maybe they were just listening to music or something and lost track of the amount of ingredients they were using. 

We’re honestly surprised that this doesn’t happen more often. After all, most people keep the weed killer in the same spot they’d keep their fertilizer. This person grabbed the former and sprayed it all over their yard, thinking that they were making their grass happy and healthy. As you can see, that was definitely not the case, and they just ended up with dead patches of grass wherever they sprayed. 

It isn’t always the case, but sometimes ordering online can be a bit dicey, especially if you don’t find and read the really small print outlining dimensions. This guy obviously got really excited when he was ordering his new chair and didn’t care to check and see how big it actually was. When he received the chair, he took this photo, and while he does look a bit disappointed, at least he’s maintaining a sense of humor.

This photo is actually a lot more heartwarming than it looks at first. This kid saw his favorite soccer player out on the street and instantly started chasing after him to get a photo or an autograph. However, he accidentally ran head-first into a pole while he was giving chase and ended up with a bloody nose. Luckily, it looks like the player saw the whole thing happen and gave the kid a photo.

This guy’s boss was probably really shocked when the new drill bit finally came in, seeing as how this thing doesn’t look like it’d fit in a regular drill. Someone forgot to add a decimal when ordering a 7.5 mm bit and ended up with this. But honestly, even small drill bits are already very expensive, so they had to be using their boss’s money when they ordered this and didn’t notice the price difference.  

If you weren’t aware, leather is never meant to be washed in a washing machine. If you ever do wash something leather in a washing machine, then it’s going to end up looking like these gloves. They shrunk enormously after this guy washed them, and we have to imagine that the whole thing was just an accident. Maybe he didn’t see them with the other dirty clothes when he emptied everything. 

A guy was walking through IKEA when he looked down and noticed that this fake apple had bite marks on it. Not only that, but these bite marks look really deep, meaning someone had to have tried to really take a chunk out of this apple. It looks pretty real, but it doesn’t look real enough for us to gamble on it in the middle of an IKEA, especially not with it sitting next to that fake lettuce. 

We think this water filter was inside a refrigerator, but that still doesn’t excuse the fact that it was installed well over a decade ago and never changed. Someone asked their mother why the water tasted a little funny, and when they went and checked the filter, they noticed that the date on it said it was installed in 2006. That might explain why the water tasted a bit weird. 

There are few things we imagine taste worse with coffee than vegetable stock. Maybe chicken stock. This person reached for the vegetable stock in the morning instead of the milk and ended up with coffee that probably tasted like it needed to be thrown out. However, in their defense, the cartons for the milk and the stock look nearly identical, and we’d have a hard time telling them apart in the morning, too.

You might have to look kind of close, but if you do, then you can see a mark on the back of this guy’s phone. That mark is from where they mistook a mug heater for a wireless charger; honestly, we don’t blame them. We never thought about it before, but wireless chargers look exactly like mug heaters. You wouldn’t even have to be multitasking to mistake one for the other. 

Wrapping paper usually isn’t this confusing. Most of the time, you can clearly see what pattern or image is on the outside of it. However, for some reason, this wrapping paper appears silver until you actually start unrolling it and realize that it’s clear. This person didn’t seem too concerned, though, and said they were still going to use it to wrap their coworker’s gift, even if that kind of destroys the point.

Someone posted this photo after they’d finished their dinner and were waiting for the check. It appears as though the waitress just lost track of everything when she looked up at the game. Maybe she’s just a really big baseball fan because she looks dead focused on the game. The person who took the photo said that they had been waiting around for 15 minutes, and the restaurant had emptied. 

If this has never happened to you, then we’re a bit envious. Someone went to add a bit of black pepper to their meal and ended up using the wrong side of the shaker. The result looks like someone just ran up and poured a handful of sand into a pan. The worst part just might be that they’re trying in vain to scoop it all out with a spatula.

Having a family member take care of something that you’d normally pay an arm and a leg for can be great, but it also sometimes opens you up to things like this. The couple in this photo had one of their children take and edit their wedding photos. The photos themselves turned out great, but if you look closely, then you can see something strange about the tree in the background. 

Someone at Subway must’ve really been working hard when they made this sandwich because it appears as though they completely forgot their knife in the wrapper. Whoever ordered the sandwich ended up receiving it with their order, which isn’t the worst thing to get with your order, if we’re being honest. We’re just sure whoever got this was pretty surprised when they opened up the wrapper and found a knife. 

Someone was talking to their dad when they said Google was blurring all of the images in the top left corner of the laptop for some reason. They then took a photo of the laptop, but they probably should’ve been reaching out to push the screen away from that candle. It’s not hard to see why a portion of the screen might look blurry. The entire back right corner is melting. 

We could see someone, busy or not, grabbing whatever spray bottle they saw on the counter and thinking its cooking spray. This mom grabbed the bug spray and then used it to coat her cinnamon rolls, not noticing it until after the rolls were out of the oven. However, bug spray has a pretty strong smell, so we’re kind of surprised that she didn’t realize when she was spraying away. 

This one isn’t the worst mistake in the world to make. Someone’s dad sent them and their partner a cutting board for their new home as a housewarming gift. However, the dad didn’t realize that the board he ordered was… well, industrial-sized, and the couple ended up with a cutting board the size of a large kitchen island. And honestly, we hope they actually turned it into a kitchen island. 

We’re pretty sure most people have seen the protective film that companies put on things like T.V.s and such. One of the first things most people do after buying a new screen is to pull the film off. And that’s what this person tried doing as well. However, it turned out his T.V. didn’t come with one of those, and instead, they ended up pulling off the polarizing film and ruining a corner of the screen. 

It’s never a good feeling when you think you forgot something somewhere, only to remember what that something was much later. This person said that they got home and felt like they had forgotten something in the car. When they walked outside the next day, they saw their e-reader sitting outside on top of the car. The worst part is that it looks like it rained overnight, and their e-reader looks drenched. 

If you’ve ever mopped the floor and found yourself stuck in a corner, unable to get out without stepping on the wet floor, then this one is for you. This person was so into painting the stairs to their basement that they weren’t even thinking about how they would get out. They ended up stuck with the only way out being through the wet paint. We’re guessing they waited for it to dry. 

Pretty much everyone is taught to put things back where they got them from a young age. However, sometimes we just forget to do it, and that’s usually okay. This was not one of those cases. Someone pulled the ice tray out of the freezer and forgot to put it back in. the next time they opened it up; they found this mountain of ice cubes waiting for them inside. 

One of the worst feelings in the world is when you lose a wallet or phone. This guy lost his wallet, and after three days of looking, he finally ordered new cards. Of course, that’s when he decided to check the chair he was sitting in and found it stuck between the cushions and the armrest. We can see why he might’ve overlooked it because it’s hard for us to even make it out in this photo.