Today, my dad woke me up in a panic at five to ten in the morning, because he couldn't figure out how to type the "@" in an e-mail address. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 61 year-old father snatched a letter from my hands and threw four different fits because he misread it four different times, then yelled at me for "not reading it properly." I had to explain it to him. FML
Today, I received a text from my dad, which was borderline-incomprehensible due to an insane amount of text language. I replied, jokingly asked if he had a stroke while writing it. A few seconds after hitting send, I remembered the stroke he suffered last month. FML
Today, I spent an hour trying to log into my work email. I apparently kept typing the wrong password and eventually got locked out for 24 hours. My boss texted me five minutes later asking why I wasn’t responding to his emails. FML
Today, within 20 minutes of waking up, my dad gave me a pained look and said: "Uhh, turns out your laptop isn't waterproof." FML
Today, I heard from my dad for the first time in over six months. It was through Facebook, in a message blaming my brothers and me for his horrible life, and in which he spelled my name wrong. FML
Today, my dad demonstrated just how incredibly illiterate he is. He sent me a chain email about the awful lives of people with "Asparagus syndrome". FML
Today, I meant to send a spicy message to my partner, but sent it to my dad due to the Whatsapp conversations being next to each other on my computer screen, and me not paying attention due to being an idiot. My dad replied, “Uh... not sure I needed that mental image.” FML
Today, my mom called me in a panic because someone had hacked my phone and was sending her evil faces. They were emojis I'd accidentally butt-dialed. FML
Today, my dad asked me to help him buy a laptop by searching online. He explicitly said, "When you have time." I decided to shower as I had just woken up. While showering, I was startled by loud banging and my dad angrily asking why I wasn't looking for his laptop. FML
Today, my dad let me use his phone. Five minutes later, he had my mom call it because he thought he'd lost it. FML
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Tripartita 45
Haha, what a ******* noob! It couldn't be much easier: you disconnect your keyboard, stick two paper clips into the USB port touching the left and right data pins, attach the chain of resistors to one clip, touch the negative terminal of a double A battery to the other, and then connect the open resistor end to the positive terminal of the battery for exactly 500 milliseconds. The processor interprets that electrical pulse as a few keystrokes, and before you know it, you have three @ symbols. Then you delete the two you don't need. Hahaha, I still can't get over how ignorant your father is, OP!
thatweirdasian 22
Whoa, hopefully it was a veryyy important email.
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thatweirdasian 22
Whoa, hopefully it was a veryyy important email.
cacheson 42
The @ sign is very important. You should be grateful he trusted you to help him with such an important task. :D
Enkeria 30
I literally have no response to this. I'm sorry you got woken up OP. Now you won't be woken up in the future about the @ symbol. I hope it was an important email. Best of luck to you OP.
olleekenberg 20
it's not that bad...
Danne696 14
I agree #17, it literally takes 5 seconds to describe and you get to help your family. It's just to go back to sleep afterwards.
richiedbond 16
How can you "literally" have no response but yet respond??? You have officially broken literally!
utrax 23
Could be worse. I wouldn't say **** your life because of it.
Tripartita 45
Haha, what a ******* noob! It couldn't be much easier: you disconnect your keyboard, stick two paper clips into the USB port touching the left and right data pins, attach the chain of resistors to one clip, touch the negative terminal of a double A battery to the other, and then connect the open resistor end to the positive terminal of the battery for exactly 500 milliseconds. The processor interprets that electrical pulse as a few keystrokes, and before you know it, you have three @ symbols. Then you delete the two you don't need. Hahaha, I still can't get over how ignorant your father is, OP!
UncleCaitlyn 21
It also works with jumper cables
katachristic 19
pfft, real programmers use butterflies.
wasliedtoasakid 22
Wow! I didn't know that's how you do it! It's so simple!!! Silly me, I've just been mailing letters because I could never figure it out! Now, I don't have to pay for postage, anymore!
Tripartita 45
REAL programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want, #11. A fellow XKCD fan, eh?
Firecubitch 5
Instructions not clear. Got my dick stuck in an ice tray.
Iam20OrOlder 2
haha, I think if you post this to enough sites, some people might even try this !!!
Dumbstuff___ 10
What does ten to five in the morning mean?
Tripartita 45
It means it happened anytime from 10am the previous day to 5am the current day. Duh.
SpyroMello 29
It means it was 4:50am. 10 minutes til 5am. Ten to 5am.
IWillEatYouAlive 16
Well, your username makes sense
O0hdear 21
it says five to ten, not ten to five.
js2493 11
its 9:55
EagleSonOfEagle 11
Unless OP works night shift or something, I fail to see how this would be an FML. You had to wake up at brunch time? Sorry he didn't let you lie there all day.
pjsr 33
More like the "@/*#•!!!@!!" symbol for you
KelsieSwiftie 13
Usually it's the kids who don't know how to email... haha.
Ferris_Wheel 5
Well, you didn't yell @ him right? If your dad is anything like mine, I'd write down how to do it on a sticky note for them. One instruction down, only 255 to go.
Melodyrain 20
i find it kinda cute when they start panicking when it doesn't work!