Everyone does their vacations differently, some focus on meticulously planned days with strict itineraries, others like to lounge around at an all-inclusive. But no matter how you prefer to spend your time off work, basically everyone can agree that broken phones, bones, missed flights and closed attractions are not part of the fun.
So in an attempt to create a sort of reverse FOMO, we’ve gathered pictures from folks whose vacations didn’t go their way at all. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section down below.
#21 When You Plan An Entire Family Trip Around Seeing The Fabled Copper Complaint, And It’s Not There
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47points
Vacation fails humor is funny at its heart because it makes real what is otherwise idealized. Instagram overflows with perfectly posed, tactfully edited travel pictures, designed to suggest perfection. Stories of disaster and misadventure remind us all that travel is messy, mad, and outside our control. The joke is in the acceptance of that imperfection, flipping annoyance into entertainment.
#23 Three Days Into My First Trip To Argentina To Spend Time With My Step-Daughter And Husband's Family And I've Come Down With The Flu And Can't Leave The Hotel
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43points
In the end, everyone discovers vacation fails to be funny because they mix expectation and relatability with absurdity and harmless chaos together in a single package. They lower the polished fantasy of travel to reality, and they remind everyone that sometimes the most enjoyable moments do not come from perfection, but from the disasters we can laugh at in the end.
#25 Leaving For Vacation Today And Put The Oven To Self-Clean. The Middle Panel Decided It Didn’t Want To Live Anymore
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39points
#27 I Tried Whataburger For The First Time In 20 Years, While In Vacation. Are They Punishing Me?
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#28 Husband Lost His iPhone On Vacation. We Used Find My From My Phone And Tracked It To Its Last Location. Found It Run Over
He had it on him when we were out and about, but didn’t notice it was missing until late at night. We were playing switch with the family back at the rental, so he wasn’t thinking much about it. Decided to track its location and saw it was at the boardwalk we were at. Went back and looked for about 20 minutes in the parking lot. Found it smashed to bits! Had to go to the Verizon store the next day. At least we know what happened to it.
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38points
#29 Came Back To This After Vacation
We knew our neighborhood had some bad storms while we were away. As we turn onto our street, we see this.
Think it can't get worse? They had just listed the home for sale about a week earlier.
Think it can't get worse? They had just listed the home for sale about a week earlier.
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37points
#30 Adventure Vacations
On vacation with my little kids. Long travel across Europe and at night stopped for a night in a hotel in Lille near the train station. Before I went to bed, I considered myself lucky to have found free parking. In the morning, a broken passenger window in our car, and the resulting shenanigans with insurance and police. First time in France in 15 years, and I expected to practice my rusty French on different subjects.
Nothing was stolen, as nothing was inside that was worth it. Just have to deal with the aftermath of the damage.
Nothing was stolen, as nothing was inside that was worth it. Just have to deal with the aftermath of the damage.
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#31 “Lost” Luggage Has Been In This Location For The Past Week…. And There’s Nothing We Can Do About It
On a trip with my family, our bags have been at the Madrid airport for the past week. We’ve called the airline twice a day, and all they say is that there’s nothing more that they can do.
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#32 Airline Canceled Our Trip Unwarned Because We Had A Cat
We were returning from a 2-month vacation and everything was planned to go fine, we had a connecting flight, it was gonna be a long trip, but when we arrive the airline says that they cannot permit the cat to enter since the plane is rented and doesn't allow pets, they also refuse to issue a refund despite it being thier fault and we weren't warned, we had come here with the same airline, and they didn't give us an issue about it, now we are stuck here for a while with high airline costs and the cat can't go back for a while since his entry and exit permit ends today.
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35points
#33 The View From My Bedroom In My Caribbean Vacation Rental, Where I've Been Stuck Literally All Week With The Flu
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#34 Two Hours Into My Road Trip In The Middle Of Nowhere I Opened My Case To This
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#36 I Was Supposed To Go On A Family Vacation Tomorrow. I Even Had My Suitcase Packed
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33points
#37 Was A Little Tired On A Family Trip So My Father Took Over. This Is My Car Not Even An Hour Later
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33points
#38 First Day Of Vacation And This Happens…
I’m in a small town and can’t get them repaired u til I go home in a week… Super glue and tape it is then.
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32points
#40 This Just Happened To Our Caravan 500m From Our Destination For The Day
We are on our way home from a nice vacation in Greece, and right when we wanted to stop for the night at the border to Germany, bam...
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31points