Today, I was texting while making dinner. I went to pour the noodles into the boiling water and I dropped my phone in. Not thinking, I went to retreive it from the water. I now have a completely useless phone and a useless hand. FML
I agree, your life sucks (5296) - you totally deserved it (17670)
On 11/11/2009 at 7:04pm - misc - by Anonymous - United States (Wisconsin)
No no no. She should pretend she is playing bobbing for apples, and the phone is the apple.
#7 - On 11/12/2009 at 3:40am by nokillnobeepbeep
You cant detach from your pacifier long enough to fill a basic need such as eat then YEAH/YES you deserve it!!!
#3 - On 11/12/2009 at 3:16am by Cristaderzi
It's a knee jerk reaction that a lot of people would have..... unfortunately, it's the wrong reaction.....
YDI for using your phone over a vat of boiling hot water, and not thinking for that split second as to whether or not you should reach in and get it.
People shouldn't be allowed to multitask when it comes to texting.
#5 - On 11/12/2009 at 3:19am by allmidnighteyes
Are you by chance the mother of miss Bees Make Me Drive and Act Like a Fucktard?
#6 - On 11/12/2009 at 3:27am by Nakedsquirrel
don't worry man, learn to masturbate with the other hand. you can do it cause one of my hands is the CLAW
#9 - On 11/12/2009 at 3:53am by portlandrima
Uhh. Using a phone. While cooking?
Hun, I think you might need a support group or something. Text Addicts Anonymous?. :]
#13 - On 11/12/2009 at 4:05am by SusanaSaysRawrxD
Not really...for the sake of electronics, people forget themselves a little. I sprained my ankle to save my computer once, and my doctor chastised me. But his bill was two or three hundred. Had the screen cracked, my computer would have been far more than.
#20 - On 11/12/2009 at 5:28am by vetter
Now that you can't text anymore.....I wonder what you'll do to look like someone who fits in will do now?
#16 - On 11/12/2009 at 4:30am by Super_Vegetto
Have we learned a lesson about priorities? Probably not, since you were texting trivial b.s. in the kitchen, and thought it would be a good idea to plunge your hand into boiling water. YDI so many times over.
#17 - On 11/12/2009 at 4:31am by pope_suburban
How do you know what/who OP was texting?
Is it even possible that people can text their parents, or that someone can text them?
lul parents rarely text. my dad used to for work, but the second all the young people got laid off he stopped texting. if I text either or my parents or my friends parents they just call me. most parents don't text.
I know this is a total YDI, but I still feel bad for you because it sounds like something I would do :(
Well, it's the kind of dumb mistake anybody could probably make, but it's still a YDI. You really shouldn't be texting while you cook. That's a pretty foolish way to prompt an accident. What's worse is the fact that you'll have to pay full price for a new phone.
#22 - On 11/12/2009 at 5:40am by blastvortex
Premonition! Holy shit I had a dream I did this two nights ago...
#26 - On 11/12/2009 at 7:18am by QuentinM95
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is only one of the many reasons why texting is only for douches.
#29 - On 11/12/2009 at 9:33am by capthavoc123
OP, and you expect sympathy? Please don't procreate.
#30 - On 11/12/2009 at 9:54am by lostfaithinpppl
OP acts on reflexes while multitasking. You come to the comments section to make unoriginal and overused remarks about others right to procreate. Pretty sure I know who'd I rather keep out of the gene pool.
#34 - On 11/12/2009 at 11:54am by Twinklestar
LOL, sounds like something I've done in the past...FYL.
#32 - On 11/12/2009 at 11:01am by WickedAngel
Gotta agree with #34, reflexes just take over sometimes--its how the brain works.
FYL OP, burns on the hand suck. I once spilled soup all over my hand and it burned like hell for days.
#35 - On 11/12/2009 at 11:56am by n0lovesongs
I burned my hands before. but that's cause we use dish rags and not oven mits, and my mom nags a lot and a I dropped the towels yelling at her, picked up two pans at 425F the smell of cooking flesh is not a good smell.
but op, for the love of god, put the phone down for two seconds and pay attention, you do not need to be on a phone all the time. when walking, cooking doing anything important, including school focus, you were working with hot water and a flame, there are three ways to get burned (flame water steam) so you need to have full attention when working with that. I hope you learned something. the text could have waited a few seconds.
also when walking yes people say they can see in their peripheral vision but I see so many people run into poles carts, cars, and walks while texting.
this is a simple case of pay attention. now have fun reflecting with out your phone.
The OP is anonymous, yet I'm fairly certain the OP is a woman. Who the hell texts while cooking? No guy that I know ever does that. Only women feel the need to text their thoughts and feelings as they happen, regardless of what they're doing at the time.
C'mon people! A little bit of common sense please?
u missed out 1 more thing... useless brain as well... add that in... triple FML
#39 - On 11/12/2009 at 1:02pm by KenMcGormick
Lol something like that is bound to happen while texting and doing something else. I've done shit like that plenty of times
#41 - On 11/12/2009 at 1:16pm by LikeOhMahGoose
What is it with people and texting nowadays? Is it so important that you can't put down the phone for one second to handle boiling water? YDI
I agree 100%! People are so obsessed with texting. It's ridiculous. I'm sure you lived just fine before you even knew what texting was, so just put the damn phone DOWN now and then! I assure you, you'll be just fine.
#56 - On 11/13/2009 at 2:44am by liquidskyfire
YDI for being stupid. I'M IMPERVIOUS TO BOILING WATER!!!!! ...oh wait. Dumbass.
#47 - On 11/12/2009 at 4:36pm by noshitsherlock
You should never text while:
-DRIVING
-near hot water (or water in general, for that matter)
-having sex
-eating messy foods
-running/walking/jumping/ect...
-crossing the street
-or any other attention-demanding activity
#48 - On 11/12/2009 at 7:42pm by IchHasstKaterina
How do you text for this to occur? i can understand better if you were talking to someone on the phone, but to have such buttery finger is unbelievable.
#49 - On 11/12/2009 at 8:29pm by joHnnycsU
After I read "Today, I was texting while making dinner," I already knew I was going to click on YDI.
you should have left it in and to see what would happen
#54 - On 11/13/2009 at 12:21am by Gandalf_Baggins
Something similar happened at my parents' restaurant once. A dumbshit cook dropped some tongs in the DEEP FRYER, then stuck his hand in to fish 'em out. Then he milked his workman's comp. He didn't last long once back on the job.
#57 - On 11/13/2009 at 3:58am by TheIrishJaneDoe
I sympathize. I usually cook relatively healthy food, but one time I decided to try deep frying with an inch or so of oil in a pan. Like an idiot, I flipped the battered fish like a pancake. It was one of those situations where I realized what a terrible idea it was as I was doing it, but too late to stop. The oil splashed onto my hand and forearm. Hurt like a bitch.
So while you probably deserved it, and I'm sure I deserved it, I clicked "FYL" out of sympathy and because I'd be a hypocrite for blaming you after what I did! Here's to a quick recovery :-)
