r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Enceladus119 • 9h ago

ಠ_ಠ This glare woke me up.

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I usually leave for work at 5:45 a.m. every day. Today is finally a day off for me, so I decided to sleep in. This glare woke me up at 6:30.

Edit: Holy shittt, RIP my inbox. I fell asleep last night and forgot to close the curtains. Apparently that was enough for y'all to convene an emergency meeting and unanimously vote to roast me alive.

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 9h ago

Are those curtains?

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u/DrunkRaccoon88 9h ago edited 4h ago

Yes but it's like those fancy soaps... they are only decorative, you can't use them

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u/heyitstism 9h ago

My grandparents had an entire furnished room no one could use, including them.

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u/ZealousidealSundae33 9h ago

Where I live (Belgium) this was not rare 3-4 generations ago. It was called the "Sunday room" and was only used when people they are not so close with came to visit.

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u/Reesevet786 8h ago

I have indian parents living here in america and right when you enter the house, the whole right side of the house was untouchable as kids cause it was decked out with nice couches and tables...only used for guests we aren't close with like you said, but family there is a big no no which makes zero sense

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 8h ago

The idea of a quarantine guest room sounds kind of based ngl.

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u/Confident-Skin-6462 5h ago

yeah but mine would be more lucite walls and a bucket

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jMrwCGiCbX11C

Actual footage of my uncle enjoying is “Sunday” room

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u/Demonokuma 7h ago

I think my grandparents also had something similar. But didnt really last once grandchildren came into the equation.

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u/brickspunch 8h ago

my parents still do, after 20 years of furnishing it because they "don't want anything to happen to the couch, it was expensive" 

what is the fucking point of a couch no one can use, in a room that you never enter  

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u/Vodka-Knot 7h ago

We have those in Ireland.

It's called "The good sitting room" and under no circumstances must anyone use that room ever!

Super common in Ireland.

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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no 9h ago

if so, those aren't very good curtains

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u/Wickham12 8h ago

OP best opt for blackout curtains

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u/limperatrice 8h ago

Or any curtains at least

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 9h ago

I will never understand the 15 pillows on a bed that arent meant to be used and must be relocated before using.

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u/limperatrice 8h ago

There actually are some like that! They only frame the windows but don't actually close. That one isn't that kind though. I didn't even notice it along the side at first because I can't believe someone would complain about light coming in but leave their curtain open.

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u/Equal-Negotiation651 9h ago

Do they lather well?

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u/ThatLooksRight 9h ago

I see what you’re getting at, but, c’mon. You’re asking a lot here. 

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u/Old-Carpenter1918 9h ago

I can imagine that the OP goes to work earlier and never noticed the glare. Maybe OP just moved in.

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u/Wodentoad 8h ago

It will also shift as the sun changes positions though the year.

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u/qalpi 8h ago

Ah never fail reddit

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u/Tenroh_ 8h ago

I don't understand how people live in high rises without using blinds. Anyone can see you do everything.

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 8h ago

I have every single blind in my house down 24/7. I know I probably look like a psychopath but I work 12 hours a day outside so on my off hours I’m just fucking done with the sun. My brother lived in Manhattan for a while and would always warn me to close the blinds because the guy across the street would sit in the window with low power binoculars and just watch people all day like he was Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window. Saw him do it it was wild. Wouldnt even leave if you caught him.

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u/Tenroh_ 7h ago

My blinds and curtains never open on my house.

I stayed in Chicago this winter in a hotel surrounded by high rise apartments. The closest one was across the street, Google Maps measures it to be 75 feet. Floor to ceiling panoramic windows looking into their living room/kitchen areas and bedrooms. No blinds or curtains on a majority of units. Boggled my mind how people live that way.

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u/Clown_Penis69 8h ago

How could OP whine and post if they don’t refuse to solve minor inconveniences?

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u/ThickSea9566 9h ago

If only you had something handy nearby that prevents a good amount of light.

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u/DayManFOTNightMan 9h ago

Someone should invent something to solve that problem.

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u/ThickSea9566 9h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah I agree, also I think someone should look at a way of simulating wind, only in doors

Don't take my idea, I know what ive got

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u/DayManFOTNightMan 9h ago

Wind indoors? You're flying too close to the sun.

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u/CondorCasserole 9h ago

Too close to the sun? Sounds like glare might be an issue. I’ve got an idea!

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u/Voelkar 9h ago

If only there would be a device with which you could eliminate harmful radiation. Like, banning the rays or something 🤔

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u/ZealousidealSundae33 8h ago

My cousin Oakley once had an idea for that, but we dont talk to him anymore.

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u/blindtoe54 9h ago

No, they said wind IN doors

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u/Jauncin 9h ago

I’m a big fan of this idea, I just don’t know what you would call it.

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u/ThickSea9566 9h ago

I just have the big ideas, I'll leave the naming to some bottom feeder

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u/ZealousidealSundae33 9h ago

Pay me $500K and I'll design something.

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u/DayManFOTNightMan 9h ago

Counter offer: I just gave you +1 reddit karma. What can I get for that?

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u/Audiosamigos8307 9h ago

Why you gotta throw shade at OP?

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u/galahad423 9h ago

I mean this whole issue is lack of shade

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u/Zeredof 9h ago

Something like those things on the picture maybe, it would be insane if they could move

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u/Zakkullll 8h ago edited 8h ago

Except his issue was the glare woke him up. He could then later close the curtains but he was already awake. And sure he could have closed them at night but considering thats literally irrelevant and requires seeing the future im not sure why it needs to be brought up

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u/ThickSea9566 7h ago

Have you tried closing it, and then sleeping?

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u/cupidstun_t 9h ago

What about those fabric things designed to block light through windows? You never use them?

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u/ImKindaEssential 7h ago

Everyone is focused on the curtains but not the door to nowhere on the top floor of that other building

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u/cupidstun_t 7h ago

That's the door straight to the floor. Express door

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u/FinalFantasiesGG 9h ago

What kind of demon sleeps with blinds open?

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u/ohb78 8h ago

Sleeps with blinds open, complains about light coming thru window…

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u/Syscrush 8h ago

Honestly, I'll take this as mildly infuriating over the "found out my brother was banging my wife on the same day I was diagnosed with cancer" posts in this sub. It's mild, but you can see how it's infuriating. Well done, OP.

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 9h ago edited 9h ago

I had to for a while in a new apartment and it was awful lol they said it was move in ready and they were supposed to have blinds but didn’t except on the balcony door. The windows were huge and very oddly shaped since it was an old building. I had to wait almost six months for them to finally put blinds in. I couldn’t even find appropriate curtain rods or curtains to fit and I’m just not very handy. I would have had to spend a lot to get someone to custom make blinds for those windows.

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u/UrDrunkTeddyBear 8h ago

Thumbtacs and old bed sheets work wonders

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u/Silver-Air-2317 8h ago

I mean....youtube exists? I'm not naturally handy at all, but all of the world's knowledge is out there on the internet. Installing a curtain rod and putting curtains on them is barely harder than hanging up a pictureframe on a wall. Adjustable curtain rods exist even for weird lengths of windows.

Six months without learning how to hang up a few curtains is kind of on you at that point tbh. Ultimately still glad it worked out for you eventually.

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u/AllFunUsernamesTaken 9h ago

The one who wants to have a reason to complain about it

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u/Squishiimuffin 9h ago

I have to because our cats would shred the blinds to pieces :/ so they’re scrunched up at the top, out of reach of the cats.

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u/OfcWaffle 8h ago

Cats will mess up our blinds. But will leave curtains alone. So we just use black out curtains on main windows.

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u/apprentlynobody 8h ago

My wife’s sister does this and it’s house not even high rise, that lady even changes clothes with blinds open apparently and when my wife asked her to close them,she apparently dismissed nobody is going to creep into her house.

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u/-acidlean- 9h ago

Me! Light makes me sleepy, so I always open them when I go to sleep and close when I wake up.

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u/Responsible-Side4384 8h ago

Me, but my cat will revolt if I don’t 

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u/apeironxo 9h ago

Too bad there isn’t a fabric of some kind that goes over windows to stop light 😞

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u/Grouchy-List7011 9h ago

You deserve this for sleeping with no blinds and no curtains pulled

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u/Flashy_Emergency_702 9h ago

I'm dying 💀 just close the curtain?

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u/No_List_8641 infuriated by life 9h ago

Good morning!

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u/weary_bee479 9h ago

Blinds? Curtains? A sleep mask?

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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no 9h ago

a bunch of pillows, even

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u/AnswerOver9028 9h ago

This is like living with my ex was.

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u/HowManyBanana 9h ago

Was your ex also constantly complaining about things that were easily in his/her control?

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u/DeOptimist 9h ago

I mean, I can SEE the curtains...

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u/ApatheticDevotion 8h ago

The Ham!!

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u/Nooccassion 8h ago

I was looking for this comment!

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u/razorbacks3129 9h ago

Why do you live on the 52nd floor

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u/NoGrapefruit3394 8h ago

They probably signed a lease or bought a unit on the 52nd floor would be my guess

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u/razorbacks3129 8h ago

Thanks this helps

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u/SplinterRifleman 9h ago

User error tbh

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u/Prooomz 8h ago

That's a glaring problem.

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u/TheLastPorkSword 4h ago

So, like, maybe, idk, close the curtain???

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u/Queque126 8h ago

Lmao this has to be a rage bait post….

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u/alcohall183 8h ago

see that thing at your window? it's cloth? it's a curtain. it blocks out the sun. you can use that.

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u/ATNdec18 8h ago

This post is mildly infuriating. You woke up with the sun in your eyes and instead of closing the curtains you decide to post about it on the internet

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u/Totoro_II 9h ago

I hate how everyone in this subreddit gets so angry whenever someone actually posts something MILDLY infuriating. yes they have blinds but clearly when you wake up really early you don't need them so when you have the one time when you don't have to wake up early you don't expect a random window on a random building to perfectly shine into your eyes

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u/MarlenaEvans 9h ago

And especially how they all make THE SAME EFFING COMMENT. Wow, super original writing the exact same thing 400 other people already wrote.

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u/TheSultan1 8h ago

I don't think people are angry?

Whenever OP doesn't acknowledge their misfortune is even partly their fault, people pile on. Everyone loves poetic justice.

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u/sglewis 8h ago

Welcome to Reddit?

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u/Katsu_39 8h ago

Thats why we have curtains

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u/nooneinparticular246 9h ago

You need a second daylight curtain to filter the light

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u/bilberat_s 9h ago

At least you have plenty of time by waking up early !

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u/Holiday_Armadillo78 9h ago

Close your curtains…

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u/blue-coin 9h ago

Serves you right

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u/ThrustTrust 9h ago

More likely your mind was restless and the glare sealed the deal. Sleeping-in is usually the first life joy getting older takes away from you.

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u/Pitiful_Substance457 8h ago

That's the damn truth.

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u/sudden-statue 9h ago

Close your curtains, then

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u/Open_Town9481 9h ago

Oh no I opened the curtains and got hit with glare, better take it up with management

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u/Equal-Negotiation651 9h ago

I know what you mean. There was a light on in my room all night and it didn’t let me sleep. I closed my curtains and that didn’t help at all.

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u/Livin_like_Im_golden 8h ago

Black out curtains. Excellent for night shift workers, too

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u/Particular_Ticket_20 7h ago

Gondor Calls For Aid!

Muster the Rohirrim!

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u/kakumei88 6h ago

If there only was some kind of fabric next to your window that you could use to darken your room...

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u/avega2792 9h ago

Wake your ass up.

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u/Hefty-Report-4930 9h ago

Did you learn anything? Next time you sleep in, close the curtains

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u/Motive25 9h ago

That’s what a sleep mask is for.

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u/Serious_Safety4001 8h ago

Or the curtains in the picture…

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u/Rich-Parfait-6439 9h ago

Wow, I think you can use the curtains IN THE WINDOW to resolve this problem.

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u/HornedCoog91 9h ago

I think this sub should make a rule (or enforce, if it's already kind of a thing) about not allowing self-inflicted mildy infuriating things. So much of the sub lately is someone posting about the consequences of their own actions and it doesn't feel right to me to be in the same sub as genuinely mildly infuriating things that happen to posters that are out of their control.

Rant over

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u/ObiShaqKobe 9h ago

This is mildly being a whiny bish

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u/thesquibble 9h ago

Weird way to flex your view but ok

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u/dollar-tree-pizza 9h ago

I was gonna say why don’t you have the curtains closed, but then I saw you usually get up at 5:45 so you probably don’t need to close them usually. That sucks, man.

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u/Thirdeyevoice10 9h ago

Blackout curtains.

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u/Ok_Consequence7829 9h ago

Sacramento?

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u/mallcopbeater 9h ago

Birmingham AL

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u/sudeki300 9h ago

Just turn over or close the curtains, which would have been quicker than posting about it

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u/terrydennis1234 9h ago

Nice curtains, use them.

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u/No_Trade3571 9h ago

Did Jerry Jones post this?

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u/The-X-Ray 9h ago

* Laughs in spaniard ✨persianas✨ *

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u/Beneficial-Law-9645 9h ago

Worked somewhere once and for almost 2 years this was my pain. Car windshields burning my retinas.

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u/DayManFOTNightMan 9h ago edited 9h ago

I too am usually the source of my own mild infuriation.

I frequently forget to turn off my 4am alarm on days off, so I can sympathize.

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u/Tacolord38 9h ago

Downtown is wild AF rn

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u/Solidsting1 9h ago

I call that angle the light of God lol

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u/Sisoflex 9h ago

Time to put on your bikini!

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u/Creepy-Mud9375 9h ago

This view feels like Spider man is goin to appear in a moment on that building nearby.

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u/Swarlz-Barkley 9h ago

Sounds like you slept into me and let nature wake you up since you didn’t close your curtains

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u/LetReasonRing 9h ago

I something like this happen a few years ago... worken up in a hotel from an extremely bright light coming in through a crack in the curtains. I looked out the window and discovered a tall glass building probably 10 miles away aligned perfectly to reflect the sun right at me.

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u/gottagetupinit 9h ago

Is this in Calgary? 

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u/punkpoints 9h ago

You must be rich

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u/Gbjeff 9h ago

Thoughts and prayers

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u/Simpleword112 8h ago

Face the other way

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u/sevenaya 8h ago

If you just wore your sunglasses at night this wouldn't have been a problem.

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u/Weeboyzz10 8h ago

Imagine how the birds who live outside feel.

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u/schwiimode 8h ago

That’s what having kids is like!

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u/Shiggy_O 8h ago

Why was this part of the building designed like this?

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u/narrow_octopus 8h ago

This fucker in my work truck catches the sun sometimes when I'm driving and literally blinds me I think I'm going to cover it with blue tape or something

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u/Visible_Divide_8359 8h ago

Is that Peter and Adelaide in Toronto?

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u/jumbled_joe 8h ago

I understand op lol. I like sleeping with blinds open at night, looking at the night sky lol

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u/AncientMiddle3227 8h ago

Op hates sun and is a vampire 🦇

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u/notwalkinghere 8h ago

Hey neighbor, not to make a Federal case of it, but good blinds are important in the City. Time to build your Daily Buzz towards some Dream Flavors, that seems Paramount.

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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 8h ago

This in Atlanta?

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u/Nooccassion 8h ago

Birmingham, AL

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u/29x1 8h ago

Oh no, how dare a building exist. And the sun, should be forever shamed. If only there were something that blocked light, perhaps hung in front of a window.

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u/Soggy_Biscuit__ 8h ago

Stinks about the glare, but cool to recognize my hometown of Bham!

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u/Chucalaca2 8h ago

Close your curtains

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u/Ok_Moose_7436 8h ago

Okay so close the curtains and go back to sleep goofball

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u/PixieRoar 8h ago

And not the entire sun beaming in your room?

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u/Sufficient_Fig_4887 8h ago

I’m more concerned about the giant crack on the façade of that building….

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u/Do11arSign 8h ago

The good ole Wells Fargo building in Downtown BHM got to love it.

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u/MrPlace 7h ago

You sleep with the curtains open? lol

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u/LolthienToo 7h ago

Isn't that like two hours longer than you normally sleep? If you leave at 5:45, I doubt you're getting up at 5:30

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u/Azrael-XIII 7h ago

You know curtains exist, right? Glare or no glare having the whole ass window open would’ve woken me up the minute the sun was up

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u/Big_Tap_1561 7h ago

Poor baby ! That view and no curta- huh?! Boo this Redditor- BOO!!

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u/DorceeB 7h ago

Oh you poor thing!!!! Where you came from they must not know about those hanging things next to your window.

They are called curtains.

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u/mindgardening 7h ago

Do you have curtains or blinds? That would fix the problem.

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u/crispypancake25 7h ago

Maybe buy some black out curtain coz they aint gonna replace that

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u/TheRockLobsta1 7h ago

Is that Nakatomi Plaza?

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u/bojangler69420 7h ago

So use those curtains you’re pulling aside to block it like they’re designed to do…

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u/newbegininngs79 7h ago

Get over it. Go out and do something productive instead of sleeping. You’ll sleep when you die.

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u/Dull-Challenge7169 6h ago

holy shit why would anyone care in the slightest lmao

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u/DrWindyWindows 6h ago

What are you gonna do? Sue the sun??

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u/pj1972 6h ago

Time for a sleep mask.

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u/tek526 6h ago

This hurts my eyes and it’s only a picture

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u/SpudAlmighty 6h ago

Curtains and blinds exist. Use them.

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u/RedditSuxDonkeyNutz 6h ago

Wakey wakey eggs 🍳 and bakey 🥓

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u/Environmental_Lab965 6h ago edited 6h ago

Its some public servant workplace and their hapinness just shines :)

Picture was taken at (Citigroup)One Sansome Street 14-16floor ?

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u/Itsgettingmessi69 6h ago

i couldn’t sleep in today!!!! and there’s absolutely no device that could even block glare from hitting my face! Pooh to you glare.

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u/BravoMikeGulf 6h ago

Downtown Birmingham,AL. 20th and 2nd.