Would You Rather: Everyday Curses

Small curses, permanent and entirely unfixable. Nobody dies and everybody suffers, which is a much better premise than the apocalyptic version.

The design principle behind the list is that every entry is survivable and none of them can be adapted to. A sock that is dry the moment you take it off and wet again the moment you put it on cannot be solved by buying more socks.

A phone permanently at three percent cannot be charged. Every chair being slightly too low is not painful and will bother you for the rest of your life. The curses that sound mildest are frequently the ones that are hardest to imagine actually living inside for forty years.

In practice that means thirty-two curses, and you are choosing the one you could live with rather than the one you find funniest.

Forgetting every name instantly tends to go deep in this bracket, and it deserves to. Most of the others cost you comfort. That one quietly costs you other people, which is a different category of loss altogether.