We often form our opinion of a city by judging the quality of its public spaces. If they give us a hard time, most likely we won’t be too psyched about returning to it.

And unfortunately, there are plenty of ways urban planners and interior designers ruin our everyday life and force us into dreadful anxiety-inducing situations.

They make us sit on uncomfortable benches, walk around trippy floors, and go number two in bathroom stalls so revealing, others are able to see our facial expressions.

To show how ridiculous it can get, Bored Panda has put together some of the worst public space “solutions” ever created—we deserve better!

#1 “I’m Sure You’re All Wondering Why I’ve Gathered You Here Today”

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#2 The Single Worst Clock I Have Ever Seen. I Actually Said Aloud “Whyyy”

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#3 The Chairs Waiting For You In The Laser Eye Clinic’s Reception

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#4 This Painting Inside A Local “Fancy” Restaurant

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#5 This Fountain That Looks Like A Perfect Place To Sit Down

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#6 No Broken Legs I Know Of

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#7 Designed For Dissuading The Homeless. Literally Just Uncomfortable For Everyone Else

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#8 The Design Of My School – This Is The Place Where Every Hallway Intersects

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#9 At First Glance, I Didn’t Recognize This Restaurant Mural As The Sun

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#10 This Fancy Staircase Leads Directly Into A Wall

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#11 Sometimes People Use The Left Part

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#12 Toilet Door With Another Door In It That Won’t Stay Closed

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#13 I Don’t Know Why Brown Strings Is A Welcoming Wallpaper To This Toilet Entrance. It Just Feels Gross And Unwelcoming. I Mean, This Is A Public Place

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#14 No Words Needed Here

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#15 Gas Station In Nebraska. The Station’s Color Scheme Was Red. They Tried To Get Artsy

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#16 Ballroom Where Everyone Downstairs Can See Up Your Skirt

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#17 Two Windows Of My Workplace Are Constantly Fighting For The Honor Of Being The One Who Is Going To Be Opened

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#18 These Restroom Stalls Have Translucent Doors

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#19 Marked The Door Swing Area, Boss

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#20 As If Public Toilets Didn’t Give Me Enough Anxiety

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#21 Fake Hope Escalator

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#22 This New Wall Art In My Office

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#23 This Poster In My School Cafeteria Is So Badly Designed They Put Arrows So You Can Read It Correctly

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#24 Upon Walking In This Bathroom At The Supermarket I Was Initially Disgusted At Filth And Lack Of Cleanliness Until A Closer Look Revealed It Was Designed This Way

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#25 This Is Not Rust. “It’s The Design”

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#26 Not Sure If This Belongs Here But In My Opinion This Is The Real Problem With America. It’s A Toilet Stall If You Were Wondering

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#27 Flat Carpet In A Hotel In Cologne, Germany Imitating A Curvy Surface

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#28 Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn

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#29 Not Exactly The Color Pattern You Like To See In A Bathroom

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#30 You Gotta Pay Attention On These Stairs In A Cinema

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#31 This Chandelier At A Restaurant I Ate At Bothers Me So Much

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#32 They Built This School Like One Month Ago

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#33 These Trash Cans At My School

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#34 A Poster At My Mom’s Audiology Office

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#35 The Paint In This Public Restroom

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#36 The Decorations On This Hotel Restaurant

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#37 The Lobby Of This Medical Office Has An Alligator In The Floor

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#38 Went In To A Bathroom In Airport And Was Surprised With This. Almost Turned Towards Exit Before Realization

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#39 The Smallest Handrail You’ve Ever Seen

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#40 I Can’t Tell If This Is Modern Architecture, Or If The Panera Is About To Cave In On Me

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#41 I Had To Stop While Ordering Food At A Local Restaurant Because I Saw This Poster

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#42 $1 Toothbrushes Locked Behind Glass At Walmart. Walked Around The Store For 15 Minutes Looking For Someone “Qualified” To Unlock The Glass Case

Then had to be escorted to the register with said $1 toothbrush. I could walk out of here with an air fryer easier than a toothbrush

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#43 Dentist Waiting Room

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#44 Rusted Sink At Restaurant

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#45 All The Privacy You Need

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#46 New Toilets At Work, Wonderful View On Our Interior Courtyard

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#47 This Damned Toiled

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#48 This Is Not A Crime Scene, But A Hospital Hallway

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#49 You’ve Seen Jorts, But Have You Ever Seen A Jillar

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#50 Escalator/Stairs Combo

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#51 These Tiles At My School Canteen

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#52 This Restaurant In London (Waiters Love It)

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#53 Working Spaces In An Office

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#54 This Is Russia

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#55 The Carpet In My Hotel Makes Me Feel Drunk Without Having Even Had A Single Drink

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#56 I’m Sure This Mirror Sounded Cool In Theory

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#57 This Washinton DC Whole Foods Restroom’s “Industrial” Design That Looks Like Someone Smeared Poop Everywhere

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#58 I Just Wanted To Use The Restroom

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#59 This Chunk Of Stairs That Pokes Out Of The Wall At My Work

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#60 Found This Beauty At My Local College

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#61 This Picture In McDonald’s Was Hung Sideways

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#62 Went To Go To The Bathroom At A Local Restaurant

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#63 Public Restrooms With Reflective Surfaces

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#64 New Staircase At My School

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#65 This Mirrored Floor In A Public Restroom

This photo doesn’t make it that obvious, but – this was the stall next to me, and I took it while sitting on the adjacent toilet.

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#66 This Image In The Restaurant Will Haunt Me Forever

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#67 This Tile In The Bathroom At A Restaurant

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#68 A Urinal In Germany With A Full Length Mirror For Inspecting Other Dude’s Junk

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#69 Found In A Newly Renovated Middle School

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#70 This Is The Logo For A “New York Style” Pizza Place In Ponce, Puerto Rico

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#71 My Bed At A Hotel I’m Staying In

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#72 Shark Cage Bathroom

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#73 This ‘Coat Hook’ At The Airport Bathroom That Hinges And Drops Everything On The Floor

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#74 People Will Never Learn To Not Put Faces In Corners

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#75 It’s Even Smaller In Person

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#76 These Stairs Carpeted With A Pattern That Makes It Hard To See The Edge

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#77 Love To Shutterstock See This Kind Of Stuff

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#78 Ate At A Local Restaurant

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#79 The Stairwell At My School

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#80 The Design On The Floor In The Bathroom At The Restaurant I’m At Right Now

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#81 You’ve Got A Window Office

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#82 What’s This Supposed To Say?

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#83 “Aesthetic” Urinal Covers In Public Restroom Must Be Touched With Your Hands In Order To Open

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#84 This Floor At This Store Hurts Your Eyes As You Walk Around

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#85 This Design At My University, The Classroom Is Inside Of The Bathroom, Nice

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#86 Brand New Apartments And Someone Thought This Was A Good Carpet Design But It Just Looks Like The Floor Is Rotting

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#87 I Love Eating At Restaurant Logo Here

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#88 This Is What I Have To Look At While Eating At McDonald’s

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#89 My Hotel Has A Sitting Area With No Possible Way To Access It

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#90 Russian Architecture

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#91 This “Public” Toilet On Gdansk Airport, Parking P6

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#92 The Way My School Installed The New Projector

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#93 Pointless Stairs Found At The National Children’s Hospital

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#94 Men’s Room Door At A Local Hospital. I Had To Turn Sideways To Get In, I Am Not A Large Man

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#95 Three-Legged Table That My Boss Found And Put In My Office

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#96 This Brand New Carpet In One Of My Customer’s Office Buildings That Looks Like It’s Covered In Mud

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#97 It’s The Time Most Of The Year Wonderful

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#98 It Was Nice To Be Able To See I Don’t Have Anything On The Bottom Half Of My Shirt

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#99 My Engineering Classroom

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#100 Carpet Design At My School That Looks Like Moss

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#101 My School Library

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#102 Hey Dude Where’s My Car? I Think It’s On Yellow Man. Parking Garage Design At A Local Hospital

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#103 Beautiful “Car Spa Pan” Board At The Italian Restaurant, I’ve Visited Yesterday

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#104 This Really “Artsy” Mirror At A Fancy Restaurant

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#105 Two Different Restaurants. No Affiliation. Located Just Up Ahead

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#106 My School

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#107 This Tiny Door

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#108 I’m Not Sure They Entirely Thought This Through

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#109 All Of The Hotel’s Hallway Lights Were Like This

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#110 Great Place To Sit

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#111 Local Pizza Place Cut A Hole In The Ceiling For The TV

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#112 Hallenge Ruup 4the

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#113 This Floor’s Tile Design Keeps Me Up At Night

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#114 Guy Is Being Cut In Half By The Design

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#115 Yess, Milk

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#116 How Am I Supposed To Sit Here

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#117 An Ad In My Local Mall

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#118 The Lift In This Building Is On Every Alternate Half-Level From Where The Doors To The Houses Are

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#119 This Door In The New Austin Public Library

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#120 This Publicity In The Grocery Store I Work At

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#121 This Store Trying To Have Everything 9 Related

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#122 This Sign At A Beauty Store

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#123 This Public Restroom Has Facing Toilets

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#124 This Office Kitchen

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#125 My Office Just Redid Their Stairs. The Blue Starts On The Floor In Front Of The Stairs. It Throws Me Off Every Time

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#126 This Sign In My Office Causes Me To Have A Small Existential Crisis Every Time I Pass It

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#127 Hey High School Bulldog, Meet My High School Wildcat

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#128 Well, I Think We Can’t Escape This Way

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#129 Found This Interestingly Placed Emergency Exit

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#130 Perfectly Placed Light At A Hotel

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