We'd like to think that most of life's sticky situations can reach a positive resolution, but reality doesn't always dole out happy endings. Just take it from these spectacularly screwed folks casually staring down what will inevitably become a world of annoyance, pain, and total disaster. 

From a pair of glasses we really hope know how to fly to the calm before a tsunami, here are 20 people who are up shit's creek without a paddle.