Clothes and Fire: My drip

My drip

By Anonymous - 11/08/2009 15:33 - United States

Today, the dry cleaner next to my house went up in flames. I went outside to look at the fire, as I looked on in amazement I realized I had dropped off all of my work clothes at the cleaners two days before. I was supposed to pick them up today, but was too lazy to walk the 10 feet to the store. FML

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By embarrassed - 19/12/2014 19:24 - United States

Today, I went to the dry-cleaner's and went to get my bag of laundry from my trunk, but I ended up dropping the bag. My dirty underwear blew around the parking lot. I had to chase it all down as a bunch of people looked on. FML

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By Anonymous - 11/04/2020 05:00

Today, my husband, who repairs appliances for a living, repaired our dryer. One lot of wet clothes later, it caught fire and ruined the laundry room. FML

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By beep_guacamole - 24/05/2009 21:49 - United States

Today, I went to the laundromat. I put a load in the dryer and walked away to check on my other load. When I came back, I saw a homeless man putting his dirty, wet underwear in the dryer with my clean clothes. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/07/2022 00:00

Today, after I was away for a couple of days, my wife told me she’s been doing laundry while I was gone. I'd reminded her to clean out the lint catcher because it might catch fire. I came home to a new dryer and a smoke damaged house. FML

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By nancie - 02/08/2018 20:30

Today, while I was at work, my husband threw out 50 out of my 70 T-shirts, all of my tank tops, and all but one of my sweaters. I'm not getting them back because they're burning in a bonfire in the backyard. FML

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By Lulu - 17/09/2009 02:23 - United States

Today, I was washing some clothes in the laundry room at my apartment complex. I went back an hour later, passed my neighbor on the way in, and moved my clothes to the dryer. I just brought them back from the dryer, and all my underwear are missing. FML

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By unemployed - 22/09/2009 17:08 - Canada

Today, I went into work. After three years of working 55 hours a week they fire me by putting the contents of my locker at the front door that said "if not picked up by 10:00 am stuff will be donated." I work the night shift. I just lost three sweaters, two pairs of shoes, $60 and my job. FML

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Didn't think it through

By Mister_FML - 12/08/2020 08:01

Today, I was at my new store, fixing it up. I was about to leave, so I took my clothes off to let the dirty ones dry, as I had other clothes in my car. I walked to the back of my store and the back door locked. The car was locked. I was in my boxers with no phone and no way to go home for 3 hours. FML

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By anonymous - 17/05/2016 00:29 - United States - Ashland

Today, at the laundromat. I loaded a huge load into the top dryer, put all the quarters in, and started the bottom one. I realized my mistake when I came to check on it. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/07/2015 01:50 - United States - Schenectady

Today, I woke up on the couch and realized I had fallen asleep while doing laundry. Ran to the laundry room, and found all my clothes gone. I really wish I hadn't been doing a load of all my pants. FML

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9six7four4 0

Tuesday 11 August 2009 23:08

You're just lucky your house didn't catch on fire.

gothymama 0

Tuesday 11 August 2009 23:19

YDI, but maybe you're lucky you didn't go. Supposing you had been inside when it burst into flames.

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jumperdreams 0

Tuesday 11 August 2009 23:50

instead of helping put it out, you watched??? YDI for: #1 being lazy #2 not helping karmas a bitch. hahaha next time help dumbass

st0815 9

Wednesday 12 August 2009 0:05

Yeah, he should have stormed into the blazing fire and ... done what exactly? Going out on a limb here, but quite conceivably the guy is not a firefighter, and perhaps doesn't even have a ton of firefighting equipment in his apartment.

wut_fml 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 6:25

lmaoo, not helping? There are ******* trained firefighters there with high power hoses. What the hell is the guy gonna do? Grab a gallon bucket, fill it up with water, and toss it at the side of the building? Yeah, that'll make a big difference.

letitbe56 0

Tuesday 11 August 2009 23:52

I don't think it was a YDI. How many people here have put-off something non-urgent because they were feeling lazy? I'm sure fires are more common in dry cleaners than in other businesses, but that doesn't mean one expects one's dry cleaner to catch on fire if one waits a day to pick up one's clothes. FYL, OP. Maybe the dry cleaner's insurance will cover your loss? If you had a lot of expensive stuff, maybe your own home-owner's insurance will cover part of it, too.

mopho 0

Tuesday 11 August 2009 23:56

As lazy as you were, it wasn't your fault and you surely didn't deserve it.

aatomkins 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 0:27

I thought it was a fake until I googled fire new jersy and it came up with a dry cleaners that had a fire. I however am undecided, you were lazy so YDI however FYL because loads of people leave stuff later than they should, and I'm no exception!! http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/08/fire_destroys_belleville_clean.html

Chubtubdaplaya 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 0:45

How does anyone deserve to have a dry cleaners catch on fire??

david584 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 0:57

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/08/fire_destroys_belleville_clean.html

yeti09 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 2:15

That laziness could have saved your life!

Thutboy 12

Wednesday 12 August 2009 2:24

look at what you get for being lazy :p

Sublime2500 0

Wednesday 12 August 2009 2:55

YFDI. plain and simple. This is exactly why you pick up your damn clothes when the cleaners say they will be ready. Not when you feel like picking them up. I have ran a dry cleaners for the past 13 years and nothing pisses us off more than when someone drops off clothes and we invest the labor, utilities, and time to get them done and the customer leaves them in there until they are ready to pick them up. In some cases that is up to a year. After that we donate them to Goodwill. We like to get paid for services rendered in a timely fashion. On a side note, I really hate to hear about the cleaners burning up. That is someone's livelyhood up in smoke. Lord knows it is hard enough owning a business in this F'ed up economy, much less to have it burn up. So to the OP, quit bitching, they have insurance. You will get a check for your clothes.