Little things that can be GI-GAN-TICALLY disappointing

I just saw it happen yesterday. All day long, that appetizing macaron was sitting on Elke's desk, waiting. She had saved it for last. She takes a small, triumphant bite with her eyes closed and suddenly exclaims, ‘Eww. I totally did not expect this flavor.‘

In no time, dozens of things-you're-intensely-looking-forward-to-that-turn-out-to-be-disappointing situations fly across the table. A small selection from your editor's brain farts:

1. Ordering something on AliExpress. Think of it as Russian roulette: either you're the shit, or you're the sucker.
2. Coming home with that ‘perfectly ripe’ avocado because you're going to cook for friends and then realize in the kitchen that that B*TCH is not ripe at all.
3. Our Annabel thought she had ordered a large, wicker beach bag online. Until the thing arrived and was the same size as an average clutch #thefailureisreal.
4. Going all out for your party outfit, your eyeliner is on fleek, your hair is curled, and your friend with whom you were going out suddenly says, 'Nope.' With a valid reason, but still, it's Saturday night and you have NO plan.
5. Another one in the category of major letdowns right before a party: you're late shopping for an outfit, pay a few extra bucks for the express delivery service from online store X, pick out three dresses just to be safe, and once home, you find out that NOTHING fits because the sizes run small. You wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.
6. Living on salad, celery sticks, carrots, and going to the gym four times a week to sweat off your booty, and then at the end of the week, almost cheerfully stepping on the scale only to find out that you've lost 0.1 kilos. Crying in a corner.
7. Finally going to that good movie in the cinema that everyone is talking about, even the reviews were glowing. And then you find it super lame and stuff. Yep, fuck your life.
8. Hesitating for a quarter of an hour in a restaurant between a main course, finally making a choice, and then... it's disgusting. And then your neighbor gets the other dish you were still unsure about, and of course, it looks divine. The inner grumpy cat rises in Simone...
9. Menthos rolls where there's only one pink candy among all the nasty yellow and orange ones. WHO THINKS OF THAT?!
10. Or worse: who else had childhood trauma from those packs of sprinkles from Venz that had candies in them? Filling your whole sandwich and still not getting a candy. Crying, CRYING.
11. Your Tinder date that you were sweating bullets for finally arrives, and in real life, the best boy looks, uh, very different from the photo. Help.
12. Waiting two hours at a Drake concert and the dude doesn't show up, still, Elke?
13. Or not being able to film how much you crave apple pie, racing to the store, buying whipped cream and the pie, getting home, putting on a movie, taking a bite, and then realizing that the whole thing is filled with marzipan. MARZIPAN. Lilian shivers a bit afterwards. And rightly so.
14. When you're really looking forward to a quiet evening and suddenly your housemates come home with a fourteen-person entourage.
15. Having sex for the first time with that dream guy who finishes in a minute. Oh boy, he’s a one minute man. SHIT.
16. Or teasing each other for a week and on the first time, he can't get it up due to the tension and stress. Awh, that's a bit sad.
17. Driving all the way to Antwerp on a Sunday for a shopping spree with your bestie only to find out it's some vague Flemish holiday where everything is closed. No, great job this.
18. Coming home and having looked forward all day to that last piece of (insert favorite product) in the fridge and HE has already eaten it.
19. Standing at the checkout, thinking for a few seconds that your new Marc Jacobs is going over the counter with 70 percent (!) off, only to find out it’s not the case. My god, I still have trauma.
20. That a tropical rainstorm has broken out at EXACTLY the destination where YOU'RE GOING. During the week you're on vacation, of course. Crying with a cap on.
21. A chocolate with alcohol that you didn't expect at all. AAAAARGH&%$^#$.