Whether you’re building a piece of IKEA furniture or experimenting with a new recipe for dinner, clear instructions are always an important factor in ensuring the final product is a success. But unfortunately, we don’t always have access to the most helpful directions, and sometimes the people trying to follow those directions seem to have forgotten their common sense at home. So to raise awareness for the importance of clear instructions (or to laugh at those who can’t seem to follow them), the Instructions Unclear subreddits were born.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the most hilarious posts from these groups that will remind you to always dot your I’s and check your T’s when explaining how to do something, or the outcome might be a hilarious fail. Be sure to upvote all of the photos featuring mistakes you might have made yourself (don’t worry, we won’t tell) or those that you can’t believe anyone managed to make. Feel free to share more hilariously unclear instructions you’ve encountered in the comments below, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring times instructions were written poorly, you can find more funny photos right here!
More info: Reddit | RedditRead More: 40 Times People Failed To Understand Instructions And It Resulted In Hilarious Mishaps
#1 What Should I Do?
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#2 Right Of Way
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#3 No More Dog
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#4 How Am I Supposed To Text And Drive Without My Hands?
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#5 Apparently My Husqvarna Lawn Mower Believes That If You Run Over A Child You Should Make Sure That You Do It Twice For Good Measure
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#6 Attention
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#7 Screw On Top
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#8 Instructions Were Unclear
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#9 Strange Rule, But Ok
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#10 I Need Someone Conceived Of In Vietnam To Assemble My Chair For Me!
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#11 When Am I Supposed To Take These ??
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#12 Is This What They Meant?
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#13 And Blue Means
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#14 Things Taken Literally
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#15 This Sign, Telling You Not To Touch This Bottle, Can Only Be Read By Touching The Bottle
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#16 My BF Bought A Meat Tenderizer Mallet Online And The Instructions Look Like They’ve Gone Through Five Levels Of Google Translate
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#17 Keep The Bag Away From Cheese
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#18 Ah Yes, Of Course
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#19 What About Now?
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#20 My Phone Screen Protector Did Not Come With Instructions So I Checked The Back Of The Box. Let’s Start With #1 Shall We
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#21 The Third Warning On This Diamond Art Box
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#22 Instructions Unclear, Hanging From My Horse
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#23 Don’t Need Three Words
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#24 A Classic
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#25 Yeet The Baby?
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#26 Just Do It!….or Don’t!
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#27 From Home Improvement On Snes
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