30 Wild ‘Well, That Backfired…’ Moments

‘I put a full unopened can of Sprite in a fire’
30 Wild ‘Well, That Backfired…’ Moments

For some of us, everything magically works out, every single time. The rest of us don't have famous parents, which means that sometimes, even our best-laid plans end up leaving our faces absolutely painted in proverbial egg.

You hate to be on the receiving end, but there's an undeniable, evil joy to watching it happen to someone else. A real-life instance of watching Elmer Fudd’s blunderbuss ribbon out and leave his face blackened with burned gunpowder. 

Redditors were kind enough to grace us with their own biggest backfires, and I've collected the best for you below to read with glee.

Mybluehighlighter 6y ago Had friends at a lunch table who always made fun of this girl who sat by herself. I invited her to our table one day because I felt bad for her. Yup, you can see where this is going. She immediately and 100% replaced me, and they all realized it was even more awesome to make fun of me. Jokes on them, I got to eat lunch with my civics teacher after that.
BagelDesk 6y ago In my first apartment I had a bag vacuum (as opposed to a canister vacuum), and the bag was full. I had no replacement bags, so I used painter's tape to attach a walmart bag. I thought I was frugal genius, and patted myself on the back as I switched it on. Didn't work at all. Almost immediately the bag blew right off, and a bunch of dirt blew all over the place... all the dirt that was stuck in the vacuum since the previous bag was full.
Zaracee94 6y ago Not me but my brothers. My second older brother got really bad sun burn while out at the outdoor swimming pool and my oldest brother told him to put this Deep Heat cream on it (this is that kinda cream you put on for muscle pain and it heats up). Long story short my second older brother does this and has to go to hospital for heat stroke. Never seen my dad shout so much in my life lol
. 6y ago Hired for a position i was overqualified for. Over performed. Asked for a promotion. Fired.
reddituser9871 6y ago For April fools | was planning to do an innocent prank by putting a air horn under my teachers chair so when he sat down it would trigger it and startle him but he got too startled and jumped out of his seat, landed on his back and got knocked unconscious
6y ago One day,my school decided to give everyone that rode bike,motorbike,etc... a ticket.lf you rode something to school,you had to show them your ticket to get into school.Well as you might have already guess, alot of people forgot to bring the ticket on the first day.And when i say alot i mean A LOT.There were literally over 100 bike just standing outside of the gate.l .The policy was remove shortly after that.
Shadrack Meshax 6y ago Sitting on an airplane doing a crossword puzzle. My pen stopped writing, so I snapped it up and down a couple of times. Ahhhh, pen works again. Guy beside me starts freaking out and yelling for the stewardess. I look over at him and see a thin line of black ink running from the left shoulder of his crisp, starched white shirt to the right hip of his pants. I pretended like I had been asleep, and he blamed some random kid across the aisle. The airline gave him a voucher or something to pay for
Lockshala . 6y ago Got my cat TWO cat trees because | was told she needed more vertical space. Now she doesn't use them and sleeps in the center of the floor like she owns the fuckin place
Sonicxwwe 6y ago I was quite bored one day so I took a large stick and began acting like it was a lightsaber (this was when I was like 12 btw) so basically as I was playing around with it and my brother grabbed a stick and joined in. We were fighting with them for a bit when I decided to hit him in the balls because he kicked a ball into ,y face earlier in the week. So i thrust the stick at his balls and there was a brick wall directly behind him, I missed and the stick
Dahns 6y ago I was skiing with my dad on high slope on a windy day. It was slippery and | fell. Unable to stop, I descended about 100 meters on my ass before stopping. I was still a little shocked trying to stand up when my dad stopped right before me to mock me. But it's still slippy and he fell. And he descended 100 meters on his ass before stopping. It was hilarious
Thrownawaygood 6y ago 8th grade, РЕ, playing soccer. Guy on opposing team goes to kick ball toward goal and our goalie sucks, I dive to block it with my body. Oh, I blocked it all right... with my nuts. Mega- oof. But at least he didn't get that point!
oguz279 6y ago I was running low on condoms, so I decided to sneak a box in my basket under the groceries because the supermarket had self checkout registers and I'm still fucking embarrased to buy condoms. Totally backfired. I scanned the condom and threw it in the bag in a split second, this lady (I'm assuming the store manager) got suspicious and walked up to me and asked me if I'm sure I scanned everything, then mentioned the yellow box. I remained calm, pointed out the item on the screen, and all of a sudden all her professionalism went
Aidosvonsexyman . 6y ago Friend falls over, I laugh at friend, then I fall over, everybody laughs at me
fredzout 6y ago I had a really bad number in the Vietnam era draft lottery, and joined the Navy Reserve to avoid the draft. I was walking down the road wearing Navy uniform, and a guy in an Army uniform walking the other way said, What the hell are you doing here? Не had graduated high school two years before me. I did one of those fake look around to make sure nobody's listening, and said, Don't tell anybody, but I think I figured out a way to keep from getting drafted. We had a pretty good chuckle over it.
michal2287 . 6 6y ago Once I had this stupid idea to go out with my best friend and my crush together. I thought he could help me get together with her (leaving friend zone)... Well, some time after that they started dating.
Nasmi82 6y ago This actually happened to my teacher, she entered an axe throwing competition and while winding up before throwing, it was behind her head. When she threw it she hit the back of her head with the handle. She knocked herself out and the blade of the axe almost sliced her head.
GiveltMoreGasBuhh . 6y ago I put a full unopened can of Sprite in a fire, I didn't expect it to blow up.
Irrationate 6y ago When I was 9 my older brother went to punch me. I thought he was going for my face so | ducked. Не was aiming for my stomach but damn did he connect with my nose breaking that right away.
fueledbychelsea 6y ago Met a guy at work after a bad breakup in uni. Не was cute so I figured we could hang out for the summer and I'd never see him again but he could be my distraction. Been together 8 years, married for one. Oops
Icefirewolflord . 6y ago Joked to my freind about how he had to wipe his dogs ass bc the dog got diarrhea. My cat then shat on her blanket right next to me. And she was so smug about it too
drownedout_stillhere 6y ago This one kinda fits but didn't backfire on me. I was invited by a friend of mine to join in with a Friday Ladies Game Night that she hosted, and I was excited to meet new people and play new games. After a few weeks, my host friend asked if I could stop coming over on Fridays and instead join her on Saturday nights because ladies from the Friday night group were pissed that when I showed up they actually played games. Saturday Game Nights were awesome we made crazy snack foods, played games and if the
Zerberkin 6y ago When I was a youngin I would make stuff at my house out of whatever I had. Like one time I made a hacky sack by cutting a shiny old bathing suit up that I had and sewing it up into a ball stuffed with Mardi gras beads. This other time Idk what I was making but I had the idea that I was going to melt two balloons together with a lighter. So I start lighting one balloon and it pops and melted rubber flies into the back of my hand and burned it so bad
. 6y ago Me and my friends were playing uno so I put down 4+ card then everyone after me put down their 4+ cards and I ended up picking 24 fucking cards
sarah_forwhat 6y ago I work in a small kitchen, as a joke during final briefing of the night I asked the head chef in front of everyone why the pastry section was stashing all the bananas (ordered for staff to eat). Next thing the head chef blows up at the pastry chefs, saying why wasn't the Bananas used for an ice cream or something and they all got warnings. Head chef didn't know they were for staff and pastry hated me for a solid week lol
Flareaholic 6y ago My teacher caught me on my phone in class and told me to give it to her, so I took my phone out of my case and gave the case to her. I sat back down and the teacher was just staring at me, until I said what. She then made that coughing noise they all do to indicate that I know why shes staring at me. To make things not worse than it already is, I got up and gave her my phone then sat back down. The entire class laughed at me.
corn_on_the_blob 6y ago not me, but my dads friend. Не wrote a program for a big fruit and other produce company and they wrote in the contract that he would get a 10% bonus paycheck for all the money he made the company. Well he made the company well over 1 million dollars and the company decided that that 100k was too much so they re-discussed the contract with him, to give him 5% of it, he agreed, a few days later they fire him and idk if he ever got the bonus. Не may have or he may not
DumpALump_99 6y ago You know the inside of your shoe and when it starts rolling up? Well that happened and I feared it was because my feet were too sweaty and came to the conclusion that liquid was making this happen. So, I tried putting glue in thereto keep it down but accidentally put them on before they were dry, messing me shows up.
Star_The_Solar_Hex 6y ago Edited 6y ago In 2018, our dogs had a litter of puppies (they were 75% Pit Bull, 25% Boston Terrier). So, at 12, I figured it would be no big deal if I told my mom, Hey, I can't really clean the puppy kennel, cuz I have plans to have over, remember? Maybe could do it. It'd be good for him to learn in case he ever wants his dogs to have puppies. My mom replied, Now that you mention it, it would be. I'll tell that we'll be a
saltMine1 . 6y ago I pulled on a rubber band with malicious intent and got hurt myself when it launched in my face. Entire minutes of plotting ruined! Inconceivable!
1010101 6y ago Decided to burn some newspaper outside in a toilet I had just replaced, because I didn't want risking the grass catching on fire. Well, heat caused toilet to explode, sending burning newspaper everywhere. Grass caught on fire.

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