Today, I arrived at my college dorm. To help me sleep, I listened to my local radio from my phone. Little did I know, they turn off the wifi for part of the night, and hours of music were streamed onto my phone. Guess who now owes the phone company all my money. 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 was walking home, when I realized I didn't have my phone on me. After retracing my steps, I realized that I'd been listening to music from my phone the entire time. FML
Today, I set my phone alarm to play a calm piano song so I’d wake up peacefully. Instead, Bluetooth connected to the speaker in my roommate’s room and blasted my alarm at full volume at 6 a.m. for both of us. FML
Today, I was giving a lecture to my class I heard a phone go off. Aggravated and exhausted, I asked everyone to turn their phones off. Then the phone rang again. I lost my shit and spent the next half hour calling my students a bunch of "technology whores". Then I realized the phone was mine. FML
Today, I woke up to 7 texts about the data overage charges that were accrued last night while I slept. Apparently my phone used nearly 8 GB of data, with no apps open, while I was sound asleep, leaving me with a $63 fee. FML
Today, I had to study for an important test but I could barely focus because my roommate had his music blasting at full volume. Since we get along well, I decided to put up with it. I just found out he forgot to turn it off and left over 6 hours ago. FML
Today, I was calling my cable company to tell me how to fix my internet. I stayed on hold for almost half an hour, and then when someone finally picked up, my phone died. FML
Today, my cell phone service was interrupted because I owed the company 27 cents. It cost 36 dollars to reinstate my service. FML
Today, I decided to try and call into a local radio station to try and win concert tickets for one of my favorite bands. I called in and was actually the winning number. When asked my name I answered quickly, but all I heard was "Hello? Hello?" Then they hung up. My cell phone was on mute. FML
Today, I called my phone company to get some answers about my phone bill. I was okay with being put on hold. In fact, I was on hold for so long, that the music stopped playing. When someone finally answered they told me to call back tomorrow. All my phones disconnected an hour later. FML
Today, my fiancée thought that lowering the volume on her phone would lower the amount of data being used by her streaming songs. FML
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Top comments
someindiandude 6
I would really like to know which college this is at.
narkill 13
Why would they turn on wifi during the night? What do they have to gain or potentially lose from this? Fyl.
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yourface107 3
You can manually turn the data off. My data almost ran out and that's what I did
Dcm210 19
What's the point of having a data plan then?
Schiffy 18
Unless it was some kind of maintenance issue, what dorm shuts off their wifi?
SoultheWolf 19
As much as this sucks, YDI for not putting it on your phone to only allow Wi-Fi. It isn't hard to do and would save you from future issues like this.
TisAPenguin 16
And people wonder why I keep renewing my contract. I get grandfathered into my unlimited data plan lol
Rickster747 2
Your phone doesn't have a built in radio? So sad...
toneeangel 22
See if ur fone has a sleep timer
RAUN 8
Keep the phone on for the alarm and to receive emergency calls, but use a radio or some recorded music when you plan to SLEEP through it. Why use the phone at all while you sleep?
Angel91baby 5
It is pretty easy to put a usage limit on your phone. I can't understand why you wouldn't use a normal radio anyway, you can plug headphones in if you are worried about the noise. You can even get little personal radios that you can carry around with you for a few quid. Despite this being your fault, if you speak to the phone company they will often waiver some of the bill as a courtesy to keep your custom.
Sh1btastic 4
You stuffed up!! your supposed to switch off your mobile data when you use wifi. Some phone companies will still charge you while on wifi if your mobile data is still switched on because their counter keeps going.