Transportation: Today, my class went to Berlin. At the subway station, our teacher...

By Anonymous - 15/01/2011 07:22 - Germany

Today, my class went to Berlin. At the subway station, our teacher told us to get on the next train. I was the first one to get on and the only one who didn't hear her saying: 'Wait, that's the wrong one!' I'm lost in a city I've never been before. FML

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By Idi - 09/12/2008 12:54 - France

Today, I arrived right on time for my train. Only problem, it was the wrong station. FML

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By bkeiya - 08/04/2009 12:49 - Japan

Today, I saw my train pulling in to the station. I sprinted up the stairs and luckily made the train. I looked around and no one was in my compartment. I began to notice that the train was heading down some tracks I'd never been too. I got stuck on an empty train for 3 hours in the train garage. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/09/2010 17:06 - Canada

Today, while waiting on the platform, a blind man asked out loud for some help getting into the subway car. I helped him through the doors and into a seat. I decided to sit down as well. Twenty minutes later, I realized I was on the wrong subway line. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/01/2011 21:23 - United States

Today, I rode home alone on a train. I accidentally missed my stop, but wasn't worried about it. My mom did not share my optimism and actually called the train company, saying that I was "lost" and "special". They thought she meant I was retarded. They wouldn't believe me when I said I wasn't. FML

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By sharkiewarkiemoosey - 11/10/2013 18:22 - Switzerland - Gossau

Today, I tried to catch a train to get to my new job. I was stopped and told that I needed a pre-purchased ticket to enter the platform. The only way to get the ticket, they said, was by buying one on the platform. I arrived by taxi nearly an hour late for my first day. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/06/2019 03:10

Today, I'm in my mid-twenties and just learned that I still start crying in confusing situations. I found this out by getting the wrong train in a foreign country, and then having the conductor come and tell me my ticket was only valid for the other direction. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/12/2012 19:21 - Germany - Neunkirchen

Today, I returned to Germany for a break from my studies abroad. I got lost while out for groceries, so I tried asking a guy for directions. I went totally blank and strained to think of the right words, prompting him to mutter about rude foreigners not bothering to learn the local language. FML

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By WrongTrainGuy - 27/05/2021 19:01 - United Kingdom

Today, I took the wrong train and didn’t realise it until it arrived in Aberdeen. Eight hours from where I was meant to go. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/01/2015 11:35 - Australia

Today, at the train station a woman's baggage had gotten stuck in the ticket barriers, so I used my ticket to unlock the barriers for her but told her to wait so I could get through too. She didn't wait. And I got painfully stuck in the barriers whilst I watched my train go by. FML

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Zebidee 8

Saturday 15 January 2011 16:37

Get off at the first stop. Cross the platform. Get on the first train going in the opposite direction. Get off at your original stop.

Lord_of_0 4

Saturday 15 January 2011 16:38

If you were the only person who didn't hear your teacher say it, how do you know what she said?

Comments

Wazilla 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 16:54

Seriously, just becuase it say today dosen't mean it was today, it always says today even if it was yesterday or last week

macskapingvin 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 17:04

I think people are confused because he uses the present tense "I'm lost" but I think that can be explained by English not being his first language. Hell, half of the FMLs written by native speakers have incorrect grammar.

Flounder 2

Saturday 15 January 2011 16:55

This FML is dumb because the poster was only temporarily put out until he phoned his teacher (or his teacher phoned him) and they were able to meet back up. I loved in Europe as a child and every school outing, be it as a student in England taking a trip to France or a student in France going on a trip to Spain, etc., had policies of distributing contact information for the teachers and collecting the students' mobile numbers, even in 2004 when mobile phones weren't as prevalent as they are today. Either your school is ghetto as hell or you are leaving out critical bits of this story to make it more interesting. Which makes you lame.

RondoSkillz 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 17:10

tool

ChibiChibi_fml 27

Saturday 15 January 2011 19:44

FML's are not supposed to be all serious, they are just things that **** with your day and getting lost would do that, even if it was only temporary. Personally, when I was in school I would have had to buy a temporary phone for this kind of thing because you couldn't have paid me enough to give a teacher my cell number.