Making mistakes is a part of life. No matter how many times you play a song on your guitar, bake the same chocolate chip cookie recipe or develop film from your camera, there’s a chance that something will go wrong along the way.
As embarrassing as these little mess ups can be, it’s best to accept them and move on. There’s no point in wasting energy being upset! And if you need help accepting your own failures, you might want to try seeing the humor in them. Bored Panda has searched far and wide to find the funniest examples of facepalm worthy mistakes people have made and compiled them down below. So enjoy scrolling through these photos that might make you feel better about your own errors, and be sure to upvote the ones you can’t help but giggle at!
#1 I Thought I Took A Cute Picture, Looked Back At It And Realized My Hand Was Directly On The Sascrotch
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#2 My Name Is Shane, But Thanks, I Guess
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#3 That's Why You Don't Remove The Cones That Reserve An Area For Delivery
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#4 My Wife Reminded Me Several Times To Put The Dog In His Kennel And I Did Not. He Promised He Would Be A Good Boy And He Was Not
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#5 My Legs After Mowing My Lawn While It Was Still Wet
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#6 My Wife Washed My New Pair Of Jeans So I Could Wear Them Today. She Also Threw In Her Big Fuzzy Blanket
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#7 I Put A Rock In Front Of The Green Electrical Box So My Wife Wouldn't Take Out Power To The Entire Neighborhood Again
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#8 This Is What Happens When You Wear Too Much Make Up And Not Your Seat Belt
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#9 Poor Money Box
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#10 What Could Go Wrong With Locking Your Dog In The RV
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#11 This Girl Was Bleaching Her Hair And Put A Plastic Bag From Walmart Over It To Help The Heat Stay In And It Printed The Ink Onto Her Hair
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#12 Sometimes It Pays To Have A Dirty Car. My Son Got Rear Ended Last Night, The Other Driver Was Aggressive And Left Without Exchanging Info
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#13 Forgot To Close The Window Before Getting A Carwash
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#14 I Put These Brownies To Cool On The Porch, And A Dang Squirrel Came Through The Screen And Had At Them. I Am Very Sad
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#15 I Didn't Mean It Like That
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#16 Nissan Rogue Driver Gets Stuck Making A Turn On A Denver Bike Path Foot Bridge
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#17 Lesson Learned, Don’t Wear Grey Pants To An Interview
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#18 First Time This Happened To Me
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#19 My Wife Accidently Used The Wrong Soap In The Washer
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#20 Some Crazy Work
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#21 Prof Had Me For A Moment
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#22 Buttful
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#23 What If I Decide To Let My White Dog Out After I Mow My Lawn?
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#24 What Could Go Wrong When You Don't Tie Down A Load Of Deck Boards
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#25 Last Weekend, I Was The Idiot. Didn't Notice Until 1h Down The Road
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#26 Left My Sunroof Open When It Called For Rain
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#27 3 Years Ago I Unknowingly Bought A 2 Person Child's Tent Thinking It Was Adult Sized. Still Took It To The Festival
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#28 Took The Wife Out Of Rehab For A Walk Through The City
She was taking a selfie and lost her grip on her crutch. It’s still there, impossible to retrieve.
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#29 Decided Today I Was Going To Take A Different Route In The Construction Zone To Get To Work
Safe to say I went back home.
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#30 Learn From My Mistakes
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#31 We’re Going To Disney World
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#32 I Used To Stuff My Crotch As A Little Kid To Intimidate The Pitchers On The Other Team
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#33 Looks Like A Mullet With Legs
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#34 Couch Doesn’t Fit (Horizontally) Into Room
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#35 If I Fits, I Sits
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#36 Stubborn Husband Said He Didn't Need My Help Putting Sunscreen On His Back
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#37 His Girlfriend Forgot To Take The Plastic Off The Cheese
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#38 Note To Self, Check The Dimensions Of Everything Before Ordering On Amazon
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#39 This Is The Worst Thing Chocolate Milk Ever Did
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#40 We All Make Mistakes
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#41 A Mistake Was Made
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#42 Time To Do The Waddle Of Shame
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#43 Vacuum Cleaning My Apple Keyboard
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#44 I Was Told This Would Work
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#45 I Didn't Realize Until I Got To Work That I Had Mismatched Shoes (Got Dressed In The Dark Because I Was In A Hurry)
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#46 Oh, Well
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#47 Food For You
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#48 My Mate Got A Tattoo, Ready For England Winning The Euro Championship
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#49 Today, I Followed My Out Of Date GPS And I Became The Idiot In The Car
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#50 I Was Told It Gets Worse And Worse Every Time You Get Exposed
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#51 I Don't Think I Had To Wash That
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#52 This Is My 2nd Set Of AirPods That I Have Idiotically Left In My Pockets And Washed. Please Mock Me
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#53 Car Accident Results In Toilet Paper All Over The Highway
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#54 You Ever Climb Up Somewhere And Then Realize You Have No Clue How To Get Down? I’m About 6 Meters (20 Feet) Up
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#55 Poor Guy Just Wants It To End
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#56 Didn’t Understand What Was Funny About Ordering 3 Cheese Enchiladas On The Side Until These Monsters Showed Up
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#57 A Friend Forgot To Change Their Document Name When Submitting It
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#58 Unemployed And Doing Job Interviews. Thought I’d Wax My Eyebrows To Look Put-Together
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#59 Guess Who Thought The Soy Sauce Was Syrup This Morning
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#60 Automatic Door At Work Was Broken This Morning. Walked Right Into It
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#61 My Sister Is So Intelligent, But Her Moving This Trampoline Makes Me Wonder
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#62 My Brain Read This As “No Push”. Spent A Good 30 Seconds Twisting The Handle To Try And Turn It On
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#63 Someone Just Left Their Car Like This In The Parking Lot
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#64 When England Scored, I Celebrated So Much That My Apple Watch Thought I Was In A Car Crash And Proceeded To Call 999 To Inform My Family That I May Have Been In A Serious Accident
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#65 The Way My Coworker Wrote His Absence On The Calendar
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#66 I Made A Mistake And Bought The Wrong Gas Lift For My Chair
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#67 Why Are People Doing These Kinds Of Things
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#68 They Couldn’t Do It
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#69 My Girlfriend Spilled Her Soup And This Was The Result
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#70 I Accidentally Broke My Wife’s Succulent Llama At 6 Am
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#71 Looks Like This Car Had A Bit Of An Accident
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#72 Left Car Run For 25 Hours In Winter One Time By Accident
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#73 Pregnancy Brain And Autocorrect! I'm So Embarrassed
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