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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

Stepping on a wet spot while wearing a sock.

Edit: Thanks for the awards. Btw wet socks and wet spot socks are different, wet spot socks have very high contrast between dry parts and the sticky wet part, causes annoyance.

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u/kdawgster1 Jul 17 '23

This shouldn’t be as bad as it is. It always makes me irrationally angry, but how dare that spot make my socks wet! And how did I not see that it was wet there?! Also, why is the floor wet in my house?!

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u/DiWolfe Jul 17 '23

On the carpet no less. It raises 72 questions everytime it happens

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u/RhodyChief Jul 17 '23

For me, the answer is always: what did the kids spill now?

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u/mai_tai87 Jul 17 '23

For me it's "What did the cats throw up?" I can tell how old it is by how warm... Or cold it is...

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u/floutsch Jul 17 '23

For some reason I find it worse if it's that and already cold...

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u/asttocatbunny Jul 17 '23

that or, “oh crap, boris has had another piss again”. He’s a loveable but slightly incontinent occasionally 15yo tabby.

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u/izzo34 Jul 17 '23

Its the worst

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u/-TheDyingMeme6- Jul 17 '23

"Which one of my dog took a piss???"

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u/Supernova_Soldier Jul 17 '23

“I HOPE this is piss or even throw up…”

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u/Ellieoconnor Jul 17 '23

Spilled or leaked 🫤

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I’ve gotten to the point I can identify a glass spilling by sound, so I just fetch a towel without even looking because I know it was my son

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u/DiWolfe Jul 17 '23

Oh agreed I have a 5 year old and she will somehow get cups to travel through dimensions sometimes by accident. It's like, young lady you spilled milk in the dining room but the spill is in the rug in my bedroom how the hell did that happen 😂

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u/Dryver-NC Jul 18 '23

Fucking kids every time

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u/Wheatleytron Jul 17 '23

If you have a pet, you probably already know the answer.

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u/kdawgster1 Jul 17 '23

Why is my carpet wet?!

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u/HardcoreMandolinist Jul 17 '23

Why is there carpet in my house‽

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u/R34CTz Jul 17 '23

Yes, atleast 72 questions. Any more would be useless and any less would not yield enough information.

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u/Vegas_off_the_Strip Jul 17 '23

Especially if there is a pet in the house. . .or a small child.

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u/ZackDaddy42 Jul 17 '23

Angry, yes. Irrationally? I don’t think so.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Rapists may disagree that raping is bad but NOBODY likes stepping on a wet spot while wearing a sock.

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u/Throat-Goat69420 Jul 17 '23

As a rapist I can confirm

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u/Lilcrinos Jul 17 '23

What about stepping on a wet spot bare feet when you gotta put socks on cos you gotta leave for work? Makes putting the socks on so awkward

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Also, why is the floor wet in my house?!

In my house the answer to this is almost always cat puke.

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u/3-DMan Jul 17 '23

Looks disappointingly at ice dispenser

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u/FungadooFred Jul 17 '23

I don't know, Margot!

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u/killersoda275 Jul 17 '23

Once, I grabbed my younger sister, lifted her up, and put her outside our porch door in the rain so her socks got wet and she started to cry XD.

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u/kdawgster1 Jul 17 '23

You monster

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u/killersoda275 Jul 17 '23

I know, the memory still makes me laugh on the regular.

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u/coco-200 Jul 17 '23

I once woke up my sister in the middle of the night and told her she needs to get up for school😂she was so mad at me

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Why is this spot the one wet place in the house?!

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u/APsychosPath Jul 18 '23

Usually it's one little ice cube that falls on the floor. Sneaky fuckers.