"It's Really Disgusting": 23 Things That Were Completely And Entirely Ruined By Popularity

1. "Movies. The popcorn is aged and burnt. The sofa is the terms of a 12-pack; radical are rude and loud, truthful you can't adjacent bask the movie. Also, going retired to devour earlier the movie. I utilized to bash this with my kids connected Saturdays and walk $60 bucks; present it's implicit $100."

—Anonymous, 57, Colorado

2. "Health insurance. Our household of 4 had large aesculapian backmost successful the '90s for $800 per quarter! Corporate greed and out-of-touch politicians owned by lobbyists made wellness attraction the messiness it is today."

—glitterycactus856

3. The Colorado mountains person been ruined by the immense magnitude of traffic. Want to spell into them for an afternoon? Prepare for a 30-minute thrust to instrumentality adjacent to an hr oregon two. Very frustrating."

—Anonymous

4. "Please bring backmost cabs erstwhile I don't privation to thrust oregon wage for parking. I person to get a rideshare. Uber and Lyft are present price-gouging similar everyone other — rates are ne'er the same, adjacent for the aforesaid clip of day. If they drawback connected that you usage it each time astatine the aforesaid time, the terms jumps up to astatine slightest $5 more. You utilized to beryllium capable to telephone a cab, they come, person immoderate airy conversation, get dropped off, and tip, that's it! When are we going to get fed up and huffy capable to halt them? I anticipation soon."

—Anonymous, 57, Colorado

5. "Automatic warranty offers. At self-checkout, I scanned a $5 watering tin and was offered a warranty connected the (nonexistent) electronics components — for an upcharge of lone $10. I complained to my older parent astir the ridiculous concern and got informed successful a sing-song code that 'it's amended to beryllium harmless than sorry,' truthful astatine slightest I cognize that the schmuck they're scamming really exists."

—Anonymous

6. "Used vinyl records. I'm gladsome astir the resurgence, but immoderate of the prices person go ridiculous. There is nary crushed to wage $200 oregon much for a azygous album. And the collectors are worse than the newbie audiophiles. They don't adjacent perceive to the albums and person nary appreciation for the music."

—Anonymous, 65, Pennsylvania

7. "Hawaiian ice. It's conscionable shaved crystal with artificially colored and flavored sweetener water. Last clip I was successful Maui, it outgo $7! It's astir apt $10 now. The 'native' Hawaiians are wholly cashing successful connected the autochthonal thing, Mahalo."

—greenporcupine316

8. "Any pro sporting event. Nose-bleed Lakers tickets that I paid $7.50 for successful 1980 are present $155! As a kid successful Chicago, I went to Cubs games successful the precocious '50s for a dime for the bleachers oregon 25 cents for the unreserved grandstand. Add food, parking, and possibly a souvenir, and the costs are atrocious. High-level assemblage sports are conscionable arsenic bad."

—Anonymous, 79, South Carolina

9. "Skiing. It utilized to beryllium a large household activity; our beloved steamboat ne'er truly crowded, past IKON came, and truthful did the crowds. With their rudeness, trash connected the crushed and slopes, and racing retired of control, the terms is nary longer family-friendly unless you're upper-middle-class."

—Anonymous, 71, Colorado

10. "Air travel. It didn't utilized to beryllium popular; now, it conscionable seems a root of indispensable self-torture from ticketing to security, to baggage to noise, atrocious food, and the database is endless. Back successful the day, formation attendants were happy, arrogant of their jobs, and ohio yes, adjacent helpful. Now, it's conscionable a tin of sardines."

—Anonymous, 71, Colorado

11. "The $5 drive-thru car wash. Now, it's $10. Are they utilizing amended h2o oregon soap? 🤨"

—Anonymous

12. "Hoka shoes. I person a BFF who is an avid runner, and I've had ft problems for years. She told maine astir this brand, Hoka. The regular terms astir 10 years agone was possibly $90 (they were hard to find). I would ever find them connected merchantability for $39–$69. Now, you can't find immoderate nether $120, if connected sale. Good luck. Regular prices are $140+."

—Anonymous, Palm Desert

13. "Breakfast utilized to outgo little than lunch, and luncheon outgo little than dinner. Now, everything costs the same. Greed, greed, greed."

—Anonymous, 71, California

14. "Camping. I grew up camping either successful a structure oregon a pop-up. I really became a wide manager for 2 campgrounds, and now, it's $55 per night, nary tents, and you indispensable person wifi and cablegram TV. That's not camping. Fortunately, I'm present retired."

—creativetiger45

15. "Thrift shops. Used to beryllium capable to bargain a man's play garment oregon casual agelong garment for $3 oregon $4. Now they spell for $6 oregon more, and the prime sucks."

—Anonymous

16. "Yosemite Valley. It's perfectly ruined by the throngs of radical who aren't determination for the unsocial quality but for a large enactment site. The erstwhile uncrowded and easy visited parkland has go much similar visiting Disneyland, conscionable with amended earthy scenery and a affluent geological and Native American history."

—Anonymous, 79, Kentucky

17. "National parks successful general. Remember erstwhile the entranceway was free, and you could leap successful the car, thrust into the park, drawback a campsite, and bask an inexpensive regenerative commune with nature. Now, determination are permits, reservations, waiting lines, accelerated food, crowds, and trash everyplace — conscionable similar Six Flags. Tourons tramping disconnected way to get the cleanable blog meme, parents sending kids implicit the rails to the cliff borderline for a photo, selfies adjacent to bison, drones, dogs, basal jumpers, and each different rules-don't-apply-to-me selfish cognition you tin imagine. I don't adjacent spell determination anymore."

—Anonymous, Utah

18. "NFL. The athletics is truthful determined to grow and turn that existent fans volition ne'er beryllium capable to spend to be a Super Bowl. The rules and the societal clime placation person made the athletics itself acold from thing for the fans that made it arsenic large arsenic it is now. International games and probable planetary teams successful the 'National' Football League. I volition ne'er ticker shot again. It's for radical who aren't shot watchers anymore. They privation everyone, not radical that cognize and person loved the athletics for decades and their lifetimes."

—Anonymous

19. "Water! I bargain gallons of water, usually 4 astatine a time. Five oregon six years ago, they were 79 cents — present they're $2 per gallon! I cognize we've dealt with inflation...but IT'S WATER! And past determination are reusable h2o bottles. Everyone wants $20–$50. And don't adjacent get maine started connected those Stanleys."

—Anonymous, 39, Washington

20. "The Florida Keys utilized to beryllium a quiet, laid-back spot with quaint motels and section restaurants, on with boating and fishing, and a travel to Key West. It's not that spot anymore. Big companies came successful and built big, overpriced hotels and big, costly condos each done the Keys. Restaurants that were precise tenable are present mode overpriced. The postulation is bumper-to-bumper, arsenic we person 1 roadworthy successful and that aforesaid roadworthy out. It's nary longer quaint. It's specified a shame, arsenic greed has ruined it."

—Anonymous, 50, Florida Keys

21. "Free parking astatine nationalist entree water beaches on the southeast NC seashore was casual to find until aft 2019 and COVID. Now, it's $6 per hr to parkland if you tin adjacent find a spot, and determination are nary services astatine immoderate of these nationalist entree points. Very bittersweet that the wide nationalist can't bask a escaped formation time with their friends and household anymore."

—Anonymous, 69, North Carolina

22. "Nashville. It utilized to beryllium afloat of up-and-coming musicians and singers, large places to devour and bent out, and it had a chill vibe. Now, downtown is afloat of enactment buses, pedal taverns, drunk bachelorettes, and bros. It's truly disgusting. The lone crushed natives spell downtown anymore is to spot shows oregon ticker the Predators play astatine Bridgestone. The remainder of the time, we debar it similar the plague."

—Anonymous, Tennessee

23. "Pokémon! It utilized to beryllium the nostalgic crippled of the ages for radical who either grew up with the cards, the games, oregon some successful a judgement-free portion wherever each other they'd beryllium bullied; now, it's a increasing cesspool of resellers, fake fans, and radical trying to beryllium cute to marque a speedy subordinate connected the backbone of that which was the flight to galore from reality."

—Anonymous, 36, California

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