Today, after sending in my passport application for a trip to Paris, I got a letter from the state department saying despite them having my original birth certificate, I don't exist. Upon calling them, I was told that it only proves I'm a citizen, not that I exist. I pay taxes and have a mortgage. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after 3 months of job hunting, I finally got a job. But now my birth certificate and social security card are somehow lost, and I can't start until I let them see a copy. FML
Today, because of my mom going on a drunken adventure, I now have a FBI file. I'm Canadian and my birth certificate proves I wasn't even alive when she pulled this stuff. FML
Today, I realized that I'm on the top of not having my drivers license/ state ID (I was submitting my taxes and needed it) I also threw away my brand new passport because I thought it was trash in my boyfriends car. FML
Today, I found out that my passport expired two days ago, two days before my first vacation abroad. I only found out when the airline employee scanned it at check-in, looked at me with sympathy, and said, "I don't think you're going anywhere today." My friends are currently posting beach photos while I'm filling out passport renewal forms. FML
Today, I went to the bank to open an account. It took hours for them to tell me that I needed my driver's license, passport, and residency paper. I returned with the documents. They then said that they couldn't help me. FML
Today, I found out that I have been declared dead by my credit card company in England because I haven't used it since I moved to Thailand last year. I will need three witnesses to convince them that I'm actually alive. FML
Today, I had to get out my birth certificate to prove to my dad that today is my birthday. This has happened before. FML
Today, I learned my application for resuming my citizenship in my home country (Australia) after being abroad for almost 12 years is being denied based on bureaucratic bullshit, and I'm going to be sent away to a country (USA), where I have no family or support, to be homeless and without the above. FML
Today, I went to go get my driver's license, only to be told that I need a copy of my birth certificate. In order to get the copy of my birth certificate, I need a driver's license or my passport. In order to get a passport, I need a copy of my birth certificate or a drivers license. I have none. FML
Today, the passport office informed me I won't get my passport in time to go on holidays. However, they took the money for the passport out of my account 2 months ago, causing me to go overdrawn, and not pay my travel insurance. The same insurance I needed to get the cost of the holiday back. FML
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Top comments
gracehi 33
Apparently your existence has been shut down too.
Kheasus 8
well that's one way to be off the grid...
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Comments (135)
jw90 18
Are you sure you know who you are OP? It could be you're having an identity crisis.
PenguinBitch 44
OP you do not exist, therefore this fml does not exist and THIS comment you are all reading is merely a figment of your imagination!
FlawlessSin 5
Tough luck, don't happen to live in the states do you? Government shutdowns tend to make people disappear.
blurose 6
Of course she lives in the states. It says so next to her username.
1dvs_bstd 41
hmm I wonder if you can commit crimes on the technicality that you don't exist..
jonahwalzer 12
This is fake, you cant be typing this if you don't even exist!
perdix 31
How can the person on the other end of the line deny your existence? Wouldn't that mean they are getting paid to talk into the phone to nothingness? No wonder our gubbermint is going broke!
Jaaared_ 15
Now you can do whatever you want, since you don't exist.
sthrnbell 9
I say if u don't exist neither should your mortgage or taxes!
chisty87 16
its no wonder the whole world thinks all of us americans are stupid.
jujuthefroggy_fml 16
This type of absurdities exists in administrations all around the world....( even if this one is quite...absurd)
raphanne_fml 33
Ooooh yes, there are three big mysteries in life: love, death and the administration, and it's the same everywhere. My social security and insurance company told me that I was dead once.
sunnyray812 42
How can you be a nonexistent citizen? I'm trying to think my way around this.