What is the most everyday object you've seen someone hilariously fail trying to use?

1. Witnessed multiple people ask why north just moved on a compass after they have rotated 90°.
   — Sergeant_Sriracha


2. After years of using the families windows98 i 'upgraded' the family with my old but gold computer. My mother rang me 3 times in the next 2 weeks because she couldnt find the power button, why? Because the old computer had a big red power button and the new computer was 'broken' because it had a big blue power button IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT.
   — --VuDu--


3. I once watched someone try to light the base of a firecracker. As in the end without the fuse To be honest its a bit of a miracle that the guy that did it is still in one piece
   — phoenixgoldfire






4. I worked with someone who genuinely did not know how to use paperclips. He was really embarrassed when someone called him out on not knowing and showed him how.
   — gardenmarauding


5. When a friend and I were in Rome, we were in a restroom and we couldn’t figure out how to turn on the sink. We looked for handles. We checked if it had a motion sensor. Nothing. Just when we were about to give up hope, I saw a small rubber dome under each sink. I decided to step on it and , voila, water. The best part was that there was a man waiting to wash his hands who probably thought we were the two biggest idiots in the world.
   — Zilphar


6. I once, as a child, thought that one of those long lighters for candles was a curling iron. Proceeded to burn the crap out of my ear and hair.
   — renegad3rogu3






7. First time this kid stayed away from home without parents and he thought an iron worked just by being a heavy metal thing to flatten clothes, didn’t realise you could turn it on to heat it up or anything.
   — R9_280x


8. My husband: When we first moved in together, he decided to make mashed potatoes for dinner. He’d never before made mashed potatoes that didn’t come out of a packet with “just add water” instructions, and all we had were real potatoes. I come in from outside, and he’s bashing the crap out of an uncooked potato with a rolling pin, ranting about how the “stupid potato masher doesn’t work”. But it's the thought that counts.
   — BrandNewOmelette


9. I saw someone park his bike on a sidewalk and then painstakingly hang his bike lock on one of the handlebars. Then he just walked away.
   — coturnixxx






10. I saw someone open a milk carton by cutting the top off with a knife
    — BubbleTK


11. My 90 year old grandmother was pissed at some other 70 year olds cooking for a church because they were trying to peel eggs with a vegetable peeler.
    — Photeus5


12. I remember sitting at a bus stop opposite a pair of escalators that were the wrong way to standard traffic. Every third person went up the down.
    — smileedude






13. I wouldn't necessarily call this a fail but more of a success. Went to the beach with family and my cousin was on watermelon duty. So she starts cutting the watermelons and says "man it is so hard to cut this". I turn around and she's using the wrong side of the knife but she had already cut the watermelon in like 4 pieces. She is known as not being the brightest person out there but still surprised at her super human strength.
    — MR_DoubleT


14. Can opener. Twisted so hard they fell sideways off their chair.
    — BlobfishAreCute


15. A neighbor can't figure out how to use his in-ground automatic sprinkler system. He mows the sprinkler heads off with the lawnmower and wonders why there's a "gusher" in the front yard when the system comes on. Also, he can't figure out how to cancel (or reset) the timer during periods of heavy rain. It'll be pouring outside, and yet his sprinkler system keeps pumping out more water.
    — Back2Bach