Today, I woke up early to travel to the office headquarters 3.5 hours away for important meetings. After waking up at 5.30am, picking up all my colleagues and driving 40 min out of town, I realised I was wearing my woolen house slippers. They were the only pair of shoes I'd brought on the trip. FML
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Today, I made the long drive to work, got out of the car, and realised that I'd forgotten to put shoes on before I left the house. FML
Today, I woke up early for work and spent 30 minutes frantically looking for my keys. I had to take a 30-minute Uber ride to work, then drove an hour in the company truck, only to be stood up. FML
Today, I'm supposed to be starting on the first part of a 9 hour road trip. My only coworker called in sick, so instead I had to go into work. One hour there, one hour back, and a 9-to-5 day. This would have been my first holiday in 7 years. After getting to work, I realised I'd forgotten my work keys in my other clothes. FML
Today, I finally got up early enough to get to work on time. I arrived 15 minutes early only to realize that I'd left my work laptop at home. Ended up being 30 minutes late. FML
Today, I almost missed the bus. I grabbed my backpack and ran out the door. It wasn't until after we got to school that I realized I was still in my slippers. FML
Today, I had to wake up at 4am because my boss set an important business meeting for first thing in the morning. After making sure everything was ready, I went to work. My boss ended up oversleeping and moved the meeting to tomorrow. FML
Today, after 7 hours on my feet at work, my boyfriend picked me up. Relieved, I took off my shoes. Suddenly, he looked up and sniffed, asking, "Is that your feet?" I'd forgotten to put on socks in my rush to work. He made me put my shoes back on and sit in the back, windows open. FML
Today, I had to take the train from my hometown to my university for a very important meeting concerning my foreign exchange program. When I finally arrived, I noticed a Post-it on the door: "Meeting cancelled, sick". I basically made a 9-hour day-trip for a half-an-hour walk. FML
Today, I wore a new pair of shoes to work and spent the entire day hobbling around in discomfort. It wasn't until I got home that I realized I had forgotten to take remnants of the packing foam out of the tips of the shoes. FML
Today, I woke up at 5:30 and made the half hour drive to work only to find out that it was my day off. After finally getting back home and into bed, my boss called, requesting that I come back to work since I was "already up". FML
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vivian_rae 8
So find a shoe store when you get there. It sucks to have to pay for another pair, but it's an easy fix.
Fluffydemise 18
Considering your colleagues clearly didn't tell you about the slip up I'd say it's fair game to murder the one you like least and steal his shoes. It's the only rational thing to do!
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Comments (85)
hatorade79 7
5:30 AM is so early for you that you aren't conscious of your shoes. FML, I get up that early every day.
cdgrayson 21
With a 3.5 hour drive I expect you'll be able to stop and buy some. But still that blows OP I've done similar things when rush packing for long camping trips
natheitz 23
I did that once, I just told everyone that they were custom shoes from Tibet :)
french_canadien 17
Rock those slippers!
knotcool 15
If I was her husband, I woolen have let that slipper mind.
ahcmkn 2
I dont mean to sound ignorant, but I do not quite understand this fml. You said it 3.5 hours away, but you said you only drove 45 mins? Did it take you 45 mins to realize you weren't wearing shoes or was this the amount of time you drove?
tj4234 35
I think you need to re read it. The total length of the journey is 3.5 hours, but he noticed his shoes when he was 40 minutes out of town. Excluding the fact that he picked up his co-worker (which took time in itself), he would have had 2.24 hours to go in the journey.
ahcmkn 2
thank you for clearing up the confusion
FML_4life_ 8
That sucks! But can't u just buy shoes???
shannara098 1
just go buy some new shoes that sucks but its a quick fix
Louiev82 8
Slip on 2 empty kleenex boxes just like Kevin did on that show The Office
accountnamevalid 3
This happened to me at a debate meet once, but I didn't notice I hadn't brought my dress shoes until I was at the event. Black power suit, black hose, Power Puff Girl slippers. It happens, OP, I hope you can buy another pair.