Hilarious Mishaps That Had The Power To Ruin Someone’s Entire Day (We Feel Bad For Laughing)

joannashepherd | May 22, 2025 11:30 pm

Life sometimes deals us crushing blows when everything falls apart, but thankfully those moments are few and far between. More often, it's the little unexpected irritations that quietly spoil a day.

Take a look at these photos of minor annoyances so maddening, just seeing them might make your day a bit tougher.

Why Would Someone Do This?

sitck of butter with segments jaggedly missing from top
Photo Credit: Reddit / oznuks
Photo Credit: Reddit / oznuks

Some wrongdoings in the world, as awful as they are, at least follow some twisted logic. Slicing a stick of butter like this, though, defies all reason.

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What In The Fashion Is This?

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woman has pant leg tucked into one knee high boot and over the other
Photo Credit: Reddit / phattoes
Photo Credit: Reddit / phattoes
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You might pull your pants over tall boots or tuck them inside, but mixing both styles at once is a fashion no-no.

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A Dangerous Game

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basball game and boyfriend is holding hands with another girl behind girlfriend's back
Photo Credit: Imgur
Photo Credit: Imgur
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Playing the field behind someone's back is risky enough—doing it right in front of your partner takes it to a whole new level of not okay.

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If a fly ball comes his way, I doubt she’s going to step up to catch it and save him.

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This Makes Me So Mad

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long slice of bread because loaf was sliced horizontally
Photo Credit: Reddit / MohanBhargava
Photo Credit: Reddit / MohanBhargava
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Have you ever stared at a loaf of bread and wondered, "What if I sliced it horizontally instead of the usual way?"

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I haven't—but apparently, this twisted soul did.

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Asking For A Mix-Up

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white pepper shaker and black salt shaker
Photo Credit: Hakenballdg / Reddit
Photo Credit: Hakenballdg / Reddit
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Why would a company put pepper in a white shaker and salt in a black one?

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Even though the labels use contrasting colors, when I'm holding a mostly white shaker, I’m naturally going to assume it’s salt.

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So Close, But So Far

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circle on glass stove top does not actually align with burner
Photo Credit: Reddit / armafast
Photo Credit: Reddit / armafast
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I don't know much about how stovetops are made, but I do know that if nearly every brand can manage to align the burner and the circle, it can't be that difficult.

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This Fork Is Useless Now

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fork with handle resting in maple syrup
Photo Credit: Reddit / austinjb555
Photo Credit: Reddit / austinjb555
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Let's take a moment of silence for all the forks, spoons, and knives that slipped just low enough to get their handles wet or sticky, rendering them useless.

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Good Luck Passing Them

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transport trucks all side by side across all three highway lanes
Photo Credit: Reddit / Herdnerfer
Photo Credit: Reddit / Herdnerfer
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It's frustrating enough when two large trucks occupy side-by-side lanes, making it tough to pass, but this trio took it a step further and decided no cars were getting by. Now, the whole highway is the slow lane.

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This Is Grounds For An HR Complaint

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paintings hung on wall in a weird formation and unevenly
Photo Credit: Reddit / NotKay
Photo Credit: Reddit / NotKay
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The person who shared this explained that these three paintings are displayed in their office like this for no obvious reason other than to boost employee frustration at the company.

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This Is Anarchy

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five separate almost finished toilet paper rolls on shelf
Photo Credit: Reddit / jewell
Photo Credit: Reddit / jewell
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I strongly believe that in any bathroom, there should only be one toilet paper roll in use at a time. Two is tolerable, though not ideal. But this? This is just chaos.

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This Contractor Needs To Retire

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one of the posts on a staircase was put in upside
Photo Credit: Reddit / OmniscientTexan
Photo Credit: Reddit / OmniscientTexan
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At first, I didn't see what the problem was, but once my eyes focused in on that one post that is upside down, I couldn't notice anything else. It makes me so mad.

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You Have To Eat All Three Now

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person holding single banana with all the stems of the bunch attached and three bananas opened with no stem on them
Photo Credit: Reddit / DoozerMarch
Photo Credit: Reddit / DoozerMarch
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I love bananas as a fruit, but they have a critical flaw: when you open the peel on one, you have to eat it immediately. At least this person won't be low on potassium!

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Good Question

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yes/no survey question asks: Have you ever been in an accident that resulted in your death?
Photo Credit: Reddit / Janitri
Photo Credit: Reddit / Janitri
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I don't know if they have internet surveys in the afterlife for people to fill out at their leisure, but I'm pretty sure that most people on the web have not been in a deadly accident.

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The Plants Are Going To Die

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label for watering can is clearly hard to peel off and placed over holes
Photo Credit: Reddit / Fattydog
Photo Credit: Reddit / Fattydog
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I understand that, on any product for sale, there has to be a label stuck on it somewhere, but why would anyone ever put one over the holes on a watering can?

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R.I.P. To This Donut

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chocolate icing on donut stuck entirely to side of pastry bag
Photo Credit: Reddit / TheSoulOfTheRose
Photo Credit: Reddit / TheSoulOfTheRose
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I can only imagine this person's disappointment when they tried to pull out the donut they were looking forward to only to see that the icing had left the pastry for the bag lining. A true tragedy.

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This Gives Me A Headache

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shoe color frequency bar graph has bar colors not corresponding with the color names
Photo Credit: Reddit
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Most times, when making a bar graph, there's no real reason to designate colors to specific items, but this is the one time that the colors really would have made a difference.

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That Is Not "Fixing It"

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wrong color/size bricks shoved unevenly into hold in sidewalk
Photo Credit: Reddit / realsomo
Photo Credit: Reddit / realsomo
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I understand that finding the exact same bricks in the exact same color might not be feasible for a repair job, but the crew on this job didn't even try.

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Why, Though?

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barcode sticker in the middle of a paragraph inside a book
Photo Credit: Reddit / DrButtholeAndCo
Photo Credit: Reddit / DrButtholeAndCo
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I understand why certain retailers might want to add anti-theft stickers onto their merchandise, but why would anyone ever put one in the middle of a page in the middle of a book?

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They Are The Same Size

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regular and XXL deodorant sticks are the same size
Photo Credit: Reddit / F_for_Respect_69
Photo Credit: Reddit / F_for_Respect_69
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It would be one thing if they had even just said that it was extra-large, but they really went all the way to say it is extra-extra-large only for it to be the same size as the regular.

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I Want To Yell At This Picture

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strap is partially folded over in seatbelt clip
Photo Credit: Reddit / BigPappaQ
Photo Credit: Reddit / BigPappaQ
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Everyone has had to deal with this problem before: the seatbelt folds in the clip and is the wrong size to wear and also is pretty much impossible to get back to normal.

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Disown Him At This Point

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toothpaste is all over cap and sprout
Photo Credit: Reddit / R_DUBA_STL
Photo Credit: Reddit / R_DUBA_STL
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This mom went into her son's bathroom and saw this absolute monstrosity of a toothpaste tube. I don't understand how so much toothpaste can end up on the outside of the tube.

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Was All That Really Necessary?

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excessive amount of shipping packaging for tiny item
Photo Credit: Reddit / FormerCrow97
Photo Credit: Reddit / FormerCrow97
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Ordering things online and getting them shipped to your house has a lot of advantages, but one of the worst things about it is the way that many companies use an unnecessary amount of packaging.

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They Chose Evil

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person has shoved new TP roll onto hanging with the old, empty one still on it
Photo Credit: Reddit / ComaAmes
Photo Credit: Reddit / ComaAmes
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There are some transgressions that, while annoying, are forgivable, such as forgetting to put a new roll on the holder. However, choosing to do this rather than take off the empty one is truly evil.

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Didn't Rise To The Occasion, I Guess

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bread loaf is half-empty near top crust
Photo Credit: Reddit / therobbo91
Photo Credit: Reddit / therobbo91
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Since store-bought sliced bread is so easy to acquire, I never really thought about how difficult it is to actually bake your own. It really is a finicky item to get to rise properly and bake consistently.

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Every. Single. Time.

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lift and peel safety lid only partially came off
Photo Credit: Reddit
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Considering that they make these safety seals specifically so that they are "easy to remove," it's pretty nuts that I am almost never able to get it off right in one go.

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This Is An Ad, Not A Fortune

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fortune cookie paper is really just an add for a delivery service
Photo Credit: Reddit / Ricceo
Photo Credit: Reddit / Ricceo
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While it is a silly tradition to have in Chinese restaurants, I still find a lot of fun in reading my fortune at the end of a meal. I would be so mad if it was ruined by an ad.

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How Do You Even Cook It?

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frozen pizza has the cardboard between toppings and crust
Photo Credit: Reddit / KeyboardSloth_
Photo Credit: Reddit / KeyboardSloth_
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I get that a machine made the mistake of putting the cardboard between the toppings and the crust, but I genuinely want to know what a person could do? Dump the toppings onto the crust and hope it works out okay?

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No One Wins In This Situation

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mostly full starbucks drink abandoned on a shelf of a store
Photo Credit: Reddit / DemocraticSpider
Photo Credit: Reddit / DemocraticSpider
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Poor Julie barely had any of her drink before mistakenly leaving it on a shelf. Now some poor store employee has to deal with it. It's a lose-lose kind of situation.

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Grade School Me Is So Angry

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pencils are sharpened but lead is off center so wood is at the point
Photo Credit: Reddit / kiaha
Photo Credit: Reddit / kiaha
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I have so many vivid memories of spending several minutes trying to sharpen a pencil with an off-center lead that simply cannot get the lead to form at the point.

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Why Would You Ever Do This?

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sign on gumball machine reads: CAUTION! Gumballs and Bouncing Balls Mixed Together
Photo Credit: Reddit / fansgobrr
Photo Credit: Reddit / fansgobrr
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It's perfectly fine to have a machine full of gumballs, and it is perfectly fine to have a machine full of bouncing balls, but there should never be both in one.

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This Is Why Kids Hate School

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person's
Photo Credit: Reddit / illpeeonyou
Photo Credit: Reddit / illpeeonyou
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It's one thing to get an answer wrong on a test because you simply did the work incorrectly, but there's a special type of pain in getting the right answer and having it still count as incorrect.

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These Peas Are Upsetting Me

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menu with photoshopped peas upsdie down
Photo Credit: Reddit / Epidemiologic
Photo Credit: Reddit / Epidemiologic
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At first glance, this plate of food looks just fine, and then you focus on the peas. Every time I look at them, I shudder.

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This restaurant should fire their photoshop designer immediately.

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Why Didn't They Purchase The Property Across The Street?

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7 Eleven office is located at street number 712
Photo Credit: Reddit / serph_varna
Photo Credit: Reddit / serph_varna
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Someone in a boardroom was looking at new available properties, and saw that there were vacancies on this road.

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They had the choice of buildings, and thought to themselves, "You know what the perfect address would be? 712."

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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others

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three control knobs that are in the same spot on their panels, and a fourth that is a fliipped version
Photo Credit: Reddit / HappyBlackWood
Photo Credit: Reddit / HappyBlackWood
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If you're going to go out of your way to install identical control knobs, you have to go all the way and replace all of them.

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You can't just leave the fourth as an inverted version.

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This Door Is Activating My Fight Or Flight Instinct

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door is designed to look like its leaning
Photo Credit: Reddit / Drainedlmao
Photo Credit: Reddit / Drainedlmao
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This is the most upsetting thing that I have seen all week, and I want to take an ax to this door.

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Whoever designed this and whoever lives here are both sickos.

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That One Yellow Piece In The Grey Side Is Driving Me Nuts

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bag with perfectly color separated beans apart from one
Photo Credit: Reddit / BillsBayon
Photo Credit: Reddit / BillsBayon
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If you love to color code things and organize things by their properties, this is bound to piss you off.

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The fact that the yellow one out of place is right in the corner somehow makes it worse.

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That's Too Many Icons

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cluttered computer desktop full of icons
Photo Credit: rainbowstas / Reddit
Photo Credit: rainbowstas / Reddit
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This person didn't have enough space on one desktop for all of his icons, so he had to add another screen.

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If you need this many icons, you may have some other problems.

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The Worst Kind Of Clock

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clock with .99 numbers on it
Photo Credit: JustSomeoneXP / Reddit
Photo Credit: JustSomeoneXP / Reddit
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This clock really drives home just how annoying those price tags are that say $4.99 instead of $5.

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Imagine if all of the numbers we used every day were like that.

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It's Still Closed

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foil cap off but plastic still on
Photo Credit: TheLadyNinja / Reddit
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This person went to open a sealed container only to discover that they had removed the foil top while leaving the thin plastic film behind.

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This container is still very much closed.

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Fingerprints Everywhere

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laptop with lots of fingerprints on screen
Photo Credit: Goodatlife / Reddit
Photo Credit: Goodatlife / Reddit
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This computer does not have a touch screen, and yet, it's totally covered in fingerprints. Why was somebody continuously touching this screen?

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Did they think that it was a touchscreen?

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