33 Funny Things People Have Done to Avoid a Minor Inconvenience
‘Walked a mile and a half to avoid having to parallel park’
Whether it’s laziness or social anxiety cranked all the way up to 11, sometimes you just have to do something in a super-convoluted way that makes zero sense when you closely examine your actions. Redditors know this well — especially the guy who set up a Rube Goldberg machine to turn off the light switch from his bed. Like, sure, I guess it’s helpful, but the time spent creating the contraption still adds up to far more time than it takes to get up and turn off the lights.
To that end, other Redditors have revealed the long, hard roads they’ve taken instead of just Doing the Thing, and some of these are almost impressive if you don’t think about them for longer than 10 seconds.