21 Problems That Will Become Huge Real Soon

Have you ever lived in an old house with janky floorboards and indifferent landlords? Maybe, one day, you come across a loose stair, and you really can’t deal with that right now. You duct tape it, try to clamp it down with clothespins, learn where the safest place to step on it is and basically ignore it as best you can. Sure, it’ll eventually fall apart completely, but that’s future you’s problem.

Well, we’re all that impendingly hobbled tenant, in a variety of ways. There’s just a ton of loose stairs that we as a society are ignoring or, at best, duct taping that are going to catch up with us — and soon. They were revealed after user GaddockTeegFunPolice asked r/AskReddit, “What is a ticking time bomb that people should be worried about but aren’t aware of?”