20 Best Mildly Infuriating Moments of the Year (2025): 'Apartment complex filled our pool with dirt... then raised the rent'

As the year comes to a close, let's take a look at some of the things that had people seeing red. From little annoyances to irritating events that ruined someone's entire week, people spent the year sharing their moments of frustration with the internet.

It's always interesting to take a peek into other people's lives and see what they're dealing with. For example, one person here is livid that they rented a dumpster, only to discover that some impolite individual filled up the whole thing with their own garbage! That person spent $600 just to accommodate some random person's belongings. Was that random person just saving up their items for a rainy day? Does that stranger drive around looking for empty receptacles for their trash? It's quite the mystery, but for the original dumpster-buyer, it's just a loss of $600 and a surplus of random junk.

Other people had issues that were more minor, but still totally infuriating, like one person who shared that their young nephews shattered a valuable and irreplaceable vinyl record. That's tough too, because kids can't always understand the damage they've done.

And then, there are people like the dude who hiked for 2 hours to reach a cool destination, only to get back one blurry photo to prove that they ever did the hike in the first place. I actually think their photo is kind of cool, as you can see below, but it's also understandable why they're frustrated about the whole thing. Keep scrolling to take a peek into the lives of 20 people who are all going through some infuriating moments, big and small, and see which things have also happened to you this year.

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Go to the "custom tip" option and leave a single penny

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This person got rejected by ChatGPT, and clearly no revisions were involved

$This rejection email K for position to me Application update Inbox ↑ Hi Thank you for applying to Unfortunately, we will not be moving forward with your application at this time. {{rejection_message}} "Write a warm but generic rejection email that sounds polite yet firm. Do not mention specific reasons for rejection. Make the candidate feel like they were strongly considered even if they weren't. Remember to use candidate name and company name variables." We appreciate your interest in all the b$

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"Write a warm but generic rejection email…" I just know there are templates for this online that you could find in like, 30 seconds, and it probably would've been faster than requesting this prompt in the first place!
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They need to install a camera and figure out who's liberating the library of all their books!

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Although the point of a library is for the books to be taken and read, these people have discovered that just one person keeps taking all the books for themselves, which is just selfish.
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It's going to take a lot of the children's allowance money to pay this back...

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One eagle-eyed viewer shared what's so mildly infuriating here...

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On first glance, these look like they fit the machine! But when yo look closer, you see that the waffle maker makes 4x4 waffles, while the waffles in the picture are 4x5. Whoops!
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Why are printers like this?

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5 year's worth of work, gone in an instant!

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