These 26 ‘petty curses’ blighting people’s lives are all too relatable
Practically everyone has, at some point, felt like the odds were stacked against them, whether it’s because they’ve hit every red light on the journey to an important appointment or because they always seem to get the watch that stops working after a week. When author, Louie Stowell, suggested these things might be due to minor curses, the petty annoyances of life started to make sense.
This is what Louie had to say.
A fairy cursed you at birth, but with a very minor, very petty curse, that serves to make your life just a little bit worse. What was that curse? What always seems to go wrong for you in a tiny way? Me? Shops and brands always seem to discontinue the flavours of crisps I like.
— Louie Stowell (@Louiestowell) January 26, 2019
These are our favourite responses, not least because we recognise some of them rather too well.
1.
Cursed with being tall, I've been unable to turn to a life of crime becaused I'd be so easily picked out in a line-up.
— Philip Ardagh (@PhilipArdagh) January 27, 2019
2.
I kill headphones & sunglasses.
— Scriblit (@Scriblit) January 26, 2019
3.
"You will try, at least three times, to insert a USB cable or stick into the port by turning it back and forth before inserting it correctly" https://t.co/63FezngNnP
— Tino Constance (@TinoConstance) January 26, 2019
4.
https://twitter.com/Grove_digger/status/1089313802707976192
5.
I will never wake up to my alarm. I won't sleep in massively and miss work, or a train, by just enough to send me into a minor panic every morning. https://t.co/AMkomEZMPx
— Aisha Bushby (@aishabushby) January 26, 2019
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7.
The bands I like break up, and the TV shows I like either get cancelled or jump the shark. https://t.co/DJYERD53Xb
— Hipster Viking Amy (@lasrina) January 27, 2019
8.
If I put something down just before I leave there is an 80% chance I won't pick it up again https://t.co/9TrFDgZfrW
— Kwami Odoom (@kwamiodoom) January 26, 2019
9.
https://twitter.com/smallrabbit/status/1089246293283741696
10.
I always forget one ingredient when I'm in the grocery store https://t.co/NTSKsDfFhm
— Emily Gushue (she/her) (@TheStuckDuck) January 26, 2019
11.
I have an amazing power to make the person in front of me in grocery lines develop lengthy, complicated problems with their check-out
so many price checks
so many https://t.co/pOs9IHKGP2
— Jenny Hamilton (@readingtheend) January 26, 2019
12.
I can never sharpen a pencil without the lead breaking. Alas!
— Danny with a Y (@MundyMorn) January 26, 2019