Today, I was looking through an old box of personal artwork when I realised the entire box was damp. This was all my own art from the past 3 years, smudged and smelling of cat urine. I was supposed to showcase some of it in a competition winning gallery this month. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finished a painting I'd spent 3 weeks working on for an exhibition. When I came back from lunch, my cat was perched above it on my desk. He looked at me, then down at the painting, then jumped down onto it. He slipped and smeared the wet paint everywhere, ruining the whole thing. FML
Today, artwork that I had been working on for months was destroyed, leaving me almost in tears. The culprit? A lonely pigeon who'd got into the room and shat all over it. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, I was finishing up my art project that was due the next day. I was really tired and fell asleep on my table. Three hours later, I woke up to find my project torn to bits. I went out and saw my cat vomiting out feathers and other materials I used for my project. FML
Today, one of my paintings was accepted into a local art gallery. It would've been a dream come true, had my "best friend" not submitted it under her own name and taken all the credit. FML
Today, as a respected artist, I was running a workshop with a bunch of rowdy college kids. I was in the middle of demonstrating a painting technique when I accidentally washed my paintbrush in my coffee instead of my paint water. They waited until I then drank from it to burst out in hysterics. FML
Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
Today, I came home after a short trip. Walking through the door, an overpowering smell indicated that in my rush to leave I'd forgotten to bring the cat litter tray indoors. The place was covered in cat urine. It was as if I'd created a cycling ecosystem of evaporated urine turning into urine rain-clouds. FML
Today, my garage was flooded. Everything was ruined. My garage also happens to be my study, in which my entire art coursework was drying. My exam is tomorrow and all I have to hand in is a pile of mushy paper. FML
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Top comments
ojoRojo 27
If it’s 2D art, maybe you can make some nice copies of it for the gallery? Sorry that happened, OP.
ahabsfan 17
I think the cat’s taking the piss out of you.
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Comments (9)
ojoRojo 27
If it’s 2D art, maybe you can make some nice copies of it for the gallery? Sorry that happened, OP.
Eric Henning 7
Always neuter you male cats.
ahabsfan 17
I think the cat’s taking the piss out of you.
jfigley 5
Soooooo, that means that the next time you have to pee really bad you will nicely put your cat into a container it cant escape from and pee on it right??...
Gubbon 17
No.
JasonThorn 23
This seems contradictory. Old artwork = the last three years? You'd think the smell would have hit before OP even picked up the box, let alone opened it or sorted through it. I own a cat, and the ammonia smell hits hard.
crsyldy 19
Cats are assholes
rotflqtms_ 21
They are. Back when I was in middle school, my sister took in a "friend's" cat when they were moving, and that cat refused to use the litter box... and it used to pee on my piano keyboard.