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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The Mild Inconveniences They'd Actually Wish Upon Their Worst Enemy, And The Creativity Is Both Twisted And Impressive
Sometimes the littlest things can end up being the most annoying. Reddit user toto93lnd recently asked, "You curse your enemy, but it can only slightly inconvenience them. What would it be?" Here are the prettiest responses: 1."They start to sneeze, but never fully sneeze." —u/Ok-Opinion-8701 2."Every pair of shoes they wear is sticky on the bottom, even if they're brand new. They can never escape the sound or feel of sticky shoes." —u/theOTHERdimension 3."They will always pick the slowest-moving line. Grocery store check out, in traffic, or anywhere a line may exist." —u/Possible_Ad_4094 4."I hope your every meal is never the right temperature when you eat it." —u/Kimikohiei 5."May both sides of your pillow be warm." —u/Wolfie_142 6."They never leave the house with everything the first time, but they realize every time they sit down in the car." —u/Kman1986 7."Every traffic light will turn red when you approach." —u/Canucklehead_Esq 8."Their sheets will never fit their bed properly." —u/Shot_Fox3432 9."May you wipe and wipe but never get your butt clean." —u/JustWowinCA 10."You shall have the constant feeling of a hair in your mouth." —u/BreakfastTerrible659 Related: Private Investigators Are Sharing The Most Disturbing Cases They've Ever Gotten, And Wow 11."The first pen they pick up will always be out of ink." —u/flstcjay 12."Whenever they buy a bag of salad and take it home and put it in the fridge, it's already turning brown and getting slimy the very next time they open the fridge." —u/unclemikey0 13."Their hair always looks a little bit greasy." —u/CodReasonable 14."May your socks always slip down in your shoes." —u/binky_snoosh 15."For the rest of their life, they always choose the wrong option first when deciding whether to push or pull every door they encounter." —u/klc81 16."Eyelash in your eye forever." —u/Empty_Estus Related: People Are Sharing How What Happened In Vegas Did NOT Stay In Vegas, And This Should Be A Lesson To Never Go To A Bachelor/Bachelorette Party There 17."All of their socks are mildly damp, enough to be uncomfortable." —u/TraumaGirly 18."The audio for every video they watch will always be either a few seconds early or a few seconds late compared to the visuals." —u/The-idea-man 19."May their marinara never cling to their pasta." —u/ThatweirdoCrystal 20."Always stubbing their little toe whenever they walk past anything." —u/Meggiekayyy 21."Spinach stuck in their front teeth. Forever." —u/Limp-Owl2643 22."Every time they turn on a radio, no matter the station, it plays a song they hate." —u/Puzzleheaded_Jury429 23."Make them lose one sock every time in the washing machine." —u/Future-Exercise-5667 24."Thumbs don't work on touch screens." —u/verified_OP 25."Shoes automatically untie themselves every 10 steps." —u/lastfreerangekid 26."They always bite their tongue when they chew." —u/elvisluvr 27."May they always lose one headphone." —u/WimbledonWombleRep 28."Lose their car keys right when they need to leave." —u/Kshi-dragonfly 29."They hear that 'drip drip' water sound every day, all times of day, louder while sleeping." —u/runawayrosa 30."Random wifi and data disconnecting every few hours. It immediately goes away when someone else looks at it and never manifests at the store." —u/wayoverpaid 31."Anytime they are in a situation where they need to use an app right away, it wants them to update it first. Want to call an Uber? Hold on, needs to update. I've got a Zoom meeting now! Give me a sec, updating. Trying to share that new song with a friend? Oh, wait, updating." —u/Thomisawesome finally, "They step on a small Lego every time they get out of bed." —u/Vexonar What's the most annoying mild inconvenience you'd add to this list? Share your thoughts in the comments! Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity. Also in Internet Finds: I Need To Call My Doc For A New Inhaler After Cackling So Hard At These 41 Funny Tweets From The Week Also in Internet Finds: Here Are 50 Pictures That Make Me Grin Uncontrollably No Matter How Many Times I've Seen Them, In Case You Need Them Also in Internet Finds: People In HR Revealed Truly Unhinged Reasons Employees Got Fired, And My Jaw Is On The Floor
New York Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Swedish Novelist Hits New York, With ‘Permission to Be More Wild'
After living for years with the feeling he'd been 'kidnapped by a curse,' the Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri began writing a novel to save his own life. On the surface, he was thriving. He was one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers and playwrights. His last book had been a finalist for a National Book Award. He'd begun a family of his own. And yet he still felt a pall cast by his father, whose long absences during his childhood amounted to a profound, existential taunt. His father's shadow strangled Khemiri's sense of possibility, and he was desperate to get out from under it. It trailed him as he crisscrossed the world, met his heroes, practiced shaping language into something that resembled his reality. It's not a stretch to say that Khemiri has spent a lifetime thinking about curses — a curse being just 'a story that tries to predict our future,' as he said in an interview. 'The Sisters,' his new novel, out on June 17 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is his attempt to free himself at last. The book follows Ina, Evelyn and Anastasia Mikkola, who grow up around Stockholm in the orbit of an autofictional narrator named Jonas. Like Jonas (and like Khemiri), the Mikkolas are Swedish Tunisian and grappling with an unwieldy family inheritance of their own: Their mother, a carpet seller, is convinced the family has been cursed, and each sister chooses a vastly different path in the wake of their dysfunctional childhoods. Anxious and rigid, Ina exhibits classic symptoms of Eldest Daughter Syndrome — and yet she is eminently sympathetic. The beautiful middle sister, Evelyn, mostly drifts until discovering a late-in-life hunger for acting. Anastasia wrestles with deep-seated anger but is changed by a stint studying Arabic in Tunisia, and by a woman she meets there. The Jonas figure of the book first encounters them in adolescence, and nurtures a long fascination with the trio that ends up revealing a connection deeper than he could have imagined. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
