There is something involuntarily satisfying about cutting a perfectly proportioned line of cake or filling out a coloring book and staying exactly inside the lines. Our world is filled with natural symmetry right down to the human design itself, so when our brains register symmetry it is pleasing to the eyes.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, when something is asymmetrical or ‘off’ it triggers a primal warning that something is not quite right. Sure some of us are more obsessive than others, but even the most relaxed of us can get fixated on a big enough mistake. We have collected a list of images that are skewed just wrong enough to make the perfectionist inside you cringe. From a rebel flower turned away from the crowd to misspelled keyboard keys.
#1 This Sunflower Doesn’t Want To Face East
#2 The Way My Wife Opens Things
#3 Spent Hours Completing This Mildly Infuriating Puzzle And Now I Can’t
#4 Worst Flight Ever
#5 I Lost A Loved One Today. I’m Not Sure Which One Yet, But Whoever Cuts Cheese Cake Like This Is Dead To Me
#6 Someone At Work Asked If They Could Have One Of My Sudafed
#7 Why?
#8 This Shitf Key
#9 Toughest Decision Of My Life
#10 This Guy’s Tattoo
#11 That One Window
#12 I Asked The Lady To Cut My Sandwich Into Three Pieces
#13 The Monopoly Deed Cards Are Cut Wrong. I Can Barely Focus On Bankrupting My Kids
#14 This Stovetop
#15 This Elevator Button Panel
#16 “Just Look At The Time!”
#17 Ummm
#18 Number Of Holes In These Waffles Doesn’t Match The Iron They Are Sitting In
#19 I Opened My New Sketch Pencils Today And Honestly, I Don’t Know What I Did To Deserve This
#20 These Tables At My Teaching Workshop
#21 My Wife And I Spent The Night In A Quiet Bed And Breakfast Last Night. This Kept Me Awake For Hours
#22 This Bathroom
#23 The Circle On The Netflix Volume Control Isn’t Centred On The Line
#24 Asked If They Could Cut It In Half To Split With My Boyfriend
#25 This Is Why I Don’t Let Guests Empty My Dishwasher