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
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Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. 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, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. 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, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
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girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
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sageblast95 0
bite her -_- that'll teach her whats what
Cittenscollar 0
People who aren't artists just can't understand the feeling of losing your work. Even reading this made me feel a bit upset at the thought of my art being lost. Make your mother go through the trash to retrieve it all - if she can't, send her a bill and make her pay not only for what she lost, but for the time you'll spend re-making everything for your clients. If she refuses, sue the woman. I'm so sorry.
Sapphy 0
omg! im am soooo sorry! holy shit. id would be yelling at her.. then when done yelling at her i wouldn't talk to her for a year! i love to draw and hopefully i can make it into a career.. so i can just imagen how you feel. i wish i had magic to bring all your stuff back. this kills me... it really does... ;_;
Tripodi 0
I would try to be disowned from my mom if that happened
beebeeL 1
it almost hurt to read this . this like SERIOUSLY blows . get a lock & dont give her a key .
scateice 0
:(]
SoccerPlaya17 0
#136, would u like it if people (well not even that, pricks from the internet) started calling your mom names? huh retard. -- i hope u didnt tell your mom, that would break her heart. she was trying to do something nice for you anyways : sucks though.
Korgi 0
Wow. i would have kicked her the **** out. It's absolutely ridiculous that she would come into your home and throw away ANYTHING without knowing if it's important or not.
tomarino13 0
Stupid
FarSide 23
First, I would have brought her a nice drink. Next I would have given her a loving hug and warmly kissed her on her cheek. I would have then expressed my sincere appreciation for her selfless kindness to take the time to organize my mess. Finally when she was smiling and relaxed, I would have taken my clinched fist, and delivered an excruciating, painful, solid pubic blow and defied her to even think about driving past my home for the rest of her life.