Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML
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Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML
Today, I was working at my job as a cashier, checking out an elderly woman's groceries. She was very nice, and we chatted for a couple minutes. Once she had paid, she leaned close to me and said, very politely, "I'm so so sorry that I mistook you for a girl at first, young man." I AM a girl. FML
Today, I went to the bank to deposit the cash I made waiting tables. While the teller was counting, I apologized for having so many small bills and she said "It's OK honey, I helped another one of your kind just the other day. You're lucky we take your dirty money." She thought I was a stripper. FML
Today, I went to the bank to deposit the cash I made waiting tables. While the teller was counting, I apologized for having so many small bills. She said "It's OK honey, I helped another one of your kind just the other day. You're lucky we take your dirty money." She thought I was a stripper. FML
Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML
Today, I was at work handling the cash register. It wasn't working correctly, so I apologized to the woman I was waiting on for the delay and explained, "The cash register's being a little retarded today." Then I noticed her clearly "special" adult son standing behind her. FML
Today, an old man, while I was working, asked me to spell average-length words. Confused, I refused. Turns out I was apparently taking too long counting the large amount of small change he'd given to me, and he assumed I couldn't count or spell. I study law, and I've learned basic calculus. Welcome to retail. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, while working as a waitress, an attractive woman sat at one of my tables. When she paid, I decided to be bold and write my number and "Call me" on her receipt. She put in a complaint to my manager. FML
Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML
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div01 2
Honest mistake.
skittle68 0
LOL I'm great at calc but not at math in my head. It could happen to anyone :)
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Comments (132)
BlumpkinDinner 0
Gayest FML ever.
tempaccount 0
I don't blame you. Adding is for computers. I know you were thinking, "If I say 'math', they'll think I'm stupid". And that's the problem. Unless you're in a major, you don't know what they're studying. And it's a waste of time to expect math majors to be 100% flawless on a skill that's been long since replaced by calculators. But you should have just said math and explained it. People need to know that math majors aren't just replacement calculators.
tash14 1
Everyone makes mistakes. And since you were working as a waitress my guess is that you were distracted/in a hurry while doing that math. It happens. And while all the English majors are getting pissed off, I understand why you wouldn't choose right then to announce that you're a math major! I personally am terrible at anything past algebra, but I remember my boyfriend being in a study group for one of his upper level math classes and they were asking me questions about long division. It happens.
EvyMarie 0
No matter how good your at at something, your gonna make mistakes.
SKYblue_fml 1
lol. you should have put this on MLIA, because I think that other people would deff do this
Csnyd2008 0
#28... I think you are my new favorite person.
Susaluda 0
I would do the same thing...I can do calculus better than I can do simple math :P
hesodidnot 0
why does your name tag say "student" in the first place? that seems... irrelevant.
cbelle 0
YDI for insulting English majors. Get over it. This is not a FML.
berkman 0
I feel for you man. I'm a math major. I feel stupid every time I make a silly computational error like that in front of people - but that's not math.