Today, a robin flew into my window and died. My mom, being a biology teacher, thought it would be a great experience for my brother and me to dissect it on the kitchen table. She threatened to ground us if we didn't do it. FML
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Today, my brother and I found a little bird that couldn't fly. While trying to convince my mom that it couldn't fly so we could keep it, I lightly tossed it in the air and it landed a few feet in front of me. Then my cat grabbed it and ate it. FML
Today, I found out that my mother is extremely emotional when it comes to animal deaths when a bird flew into the window and died, and she insisted we have a funeral. FML
Today, I found a tiny, featherless baby bird. I knew it was impossible, but I tried to keep it alive through the day. Before I could get it to the wildlife center, it died, and when I got all choked up over it, my mom started laughing at me and saying how "weak" I was. FML
Today, I was caring for a bird that had flown into my window. I thought the poor thing wouldn't make it, when it shit in my hand, flew into my neck, then around my living room for ages before I could manage to get it out of the window. FML
Today, I bought a parakeet for my kids. When I got home and presented it to them, they wanted to let him fly around inside. We went around the house making sure all the windows and doors were shut. Unfortunately I forgot to turn off the ceiling fan. FML
Today, I found a dead bird on my windshield. Thinking I was clever, I turned on my windshield wipers to get the bird off. Unfortunately, the dead bird fell through my open window and onto my lap. FML
Today, I found the eggshells from the nest belonging to the little bird that lives outside my house. They were covered in blood and it was quite obvious that they had been eaten. While I was looking at them, the mother bird came over and attacked me. FML
Today, my mom asked me to clean beneath my brother's bed for money. I found a rotten apple, a picture of my best friend, and a dead bird. I got $10. FML
Today, my daughter was playing outside. I was watching her from the window, and I saw her pick up a dead bird. I ran outside to grab her. As I picked her up and started scolding her, she tried to scratch my face. In the attempt, her hand went straight into my mouth. FML
Today, I was in science class studying dead insects for biology. After packing away the jars, I noticed a red-back spider on the bench. Thinking it was missing from a jar, I picked it up. It wasn't missing. It was alive. FML
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DedicatedNova 13
My mom is a science teacher. I feel your pain OP.
iSativa 24
Good experience for when you have to do it in school but that's still horrifying. FYL.
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DedicatedNova 13
My mom is a science teacher. I feel your pain OP.
Ambient25 24
I guess your parents have a "chemical" romance. Yeah...yeah...? Ok...
NeatNit 32
to OP: my brother and I* ;P (yeah I'm kidding.) actually, shouldn't it be "me and my brother" instead of "my brother and me"? sorry, my mom is an English teacher.
miianah1 22
No it's my brother and me. The other person should always go first, I believe.
Turbo_Turtle 14
No, it really is my brother and I. (Sorry, op, writer)
xerbrus 14
It is brother and me because it is objective him and his brother were not the subject of the sentence it was used. If they had been the subject it would be brother and I
littlekellilee 45
It has to make sense if you take out the other person. "... for me to dissect it" makes sense, "... for I to dissect it" doesn't.
ohgeejosee 19
This sounds like a Crona and Medusa situation...ha
Comoke1024 19
I see what you did there.
iSativa 24
Good experience for when you have to do it in school but that's still horrifying. FYL.
Voij 16
Wait, you guys have to dissect animals at school?! Why? What benefit does this have over just learning the body parts? Or is this all part of an elaborate plot to discover people who have sociopathic tendencies by observing their reactions when they cut open dead animals?
HelloooooNurse 20
Seriously? Every middle school, high school and college does this. This is not a new concept.
narrowords 18
Not everyone on FML is from the U.S., you know. Other countries just may have different educational experiences.
Setareh23 34
Well, I can tell you that dissecting an animal and simply learning the parts is a very different experience. While I can easily name the different parts on a picture, finding them and identifying them in real life is much more difficult. You get a much more vivid and 3D idea of where the different layers and cavity membranes are, how the connect, etc... It's also a good way to learn how to use the tools (important especially if you're in a health science course and plan to go into something like medicine or veterinary work). I'm sure there are other reasons, those are just the first ones to jump to mind.
HelloooooNurse 20
#41, thank you Capt. Condescension, I was sooo not aware of anything outside of my little USA bubble. You have opened my eyes. /sarcasm off
Voij 16
53: Thanks for explaining, at least it makes some sense now. Truth be told, though, I still don't think that this should be mandatory for people who don't plan on entering these specific fields. [Although it probably does help to prevent people from starting e.g. a medicine degree, only to realise halfway through that they faint upon seeing blood/guts.] PS: If public schools were better equipped for modern days, you could maybe make a virtual version of it, so that children can learn about this stuff via software and avoid the smells/blood. If we look at e.g. Surgeon simulator, I doubt that it'd be all that difficult to program good 3D models of frogs or birds.
RpiesSPIES 27
Surgeon Simulator does not wear gloves, it'd be a horrible way to teach! Not to mention many of the tools used and procedural methods.
ItsATwinThing 9
We dissected a pigs heart in science class. That wad in the UK and we were about 14-15 years old. Also we didn't have to do it if we didn't feel comfortable it was optional. A few girls in my class cried about it. It is totally different from seeing it in a text book!
littlekellilee 45
We dissected a cow's eye and a pig heart, and a squid. We were told that we could opt to do a different assignment if our religions or beliefs went against it. I'm happy I did, I still am able to educate people on how the eye works 11 years later.
Setareh23 34
#66 I'm happy to help :) As you mentioned, one of the important things of dissecting is that it gives you a feel early on of what you are going into. If we used surgeon simulator, we'd lose the whole point of that. When you dissect something real you have to get used to the smells and liquids (which btw aren't really blood, but mostly liquids the specimen has been stored in) and it's important to get used to those before you even think of starting to cut open live things. I think surgeon simulator would be more useful as an additional teaching method, and not the sole one. Anyways, the things we dissect (fetal pigs, cow eyes and hearts, etc) are often by-products of the meat industry and would just be thrown out anyways, so I have no problem using them instead to further science. I agree though that maybe dissection shouldn't be mandatory for kids in high school who really don't want to go into that field. If they are really grossed out, they should be allowed to maybe just watch. That way they at least to get a partial experience, and I think at least one dissection (even as simple as that of a worm) is a great learning experience! To each their own, I suppose!
ruthi666 23
False. I didn't dissect any animals during my grade school career.
sierrajo09 24
#66 and #94 where i grew up we had the choice of taking the course or not. not everyone has to take it. i decided to because i wanted to become a vet but then i didnt. im now looking into medical field so either way it turned out as a positive course for me.
isuckwithnames 22
In my high school you had to dissect a pig fetus in biology. To bad I didn't take it.
claiiire_fml 17
Your mom seems a bit twisted..
kylieh72 25
You seem a bit judgmental.
mamamiaaa_fml 12
#20 - this is FML. Everyone's judgmental. Also the mom does seem a bit twisted, so I'd say that was an accurate assessment of the situation.
kylieh72 25
Considering how the entire site is based on judgment I don't disagree on that point. But twisted seems like a harsh label for someone only trying to share their harmless passion with their kids.
glabberfasted 16
That's the second post of yours I've seen in which you call someone else judgemental. Is that not, in turn, being judgemental yourself?
kylieh72 25
We've established that the fml community is more or less judgmental. Again, it's the harshness of this particular judgment that in my opinion is uncalled for.
ironichalibut 24
#3's statement was actually fairly neutral. They used the word "seems", implying that it was opinion, and not accusation. I agree it's a Weird fascination to many people, and without context could seem twisted. What's next after judging people over judging people though?.. Being prejudice, but only towards racists?
kylieh72 25
You're each judging me for judging #3. And by 28's logic I'm equally neutral in my first comment and equally undeserving of judgment.
colton_colton 50
Maybe just a bit!
X_red 10
Harmless?
kylieh72 25
A murderer might also like to share their passions with their kids...I would definitely agree that is twisted.
zandalee 19
You are probably going to be one of the many people populating this planet who are scarred by their childhood. It's a rather big club.
vuduguru 5
grow up and get over it, you can't live in your past
alyant 12
Oh the joy of having/knowing a science teacher
1947Chevy 17
That's just wrong
kylieh72 25
At least she didn't kill it. Even for science killing things is extra wrong.
speakersboom 19
This sounds like something from American Horror Story...
applebramble 22
I would have buried it . That's just too graphic for me :s
illusong 16
Did you bury it after and not dump it in the trashcan :(
PenguinBitch 43
So a robin flew into YOUR window and died?....it has begun @-@
smokecloud_ 37
Don't you watch Windex commercials? Its so sparkly clean they just fly right into it!
heroforhirex95 17
At least she didn't make you eat it