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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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DancingHorse 0
As an artist, I feel your pain...This is why I'm a digital artist! No paper to lose and my external hard drive is in a fire-proof safe just in case. I really hope that you were able to recover at least some of your work.
missus_butter 0
#29, you said it all.
artpsychopedia 0
If my mother ever did that to me, there is no force on earth that would stop me from murdering her. And it's a possibility too, because my best ideas are all scratched onto napkins or the backs of shopping lists before I get to my sketchbook again. Thankfully my mom knows better >.>;;
artpsychopedia 0
#7-- Get locked out of your house just one time.
takran 0
I think it's time to take the spare key away from mom and give it to someone you can actually trust.
obff527 7
DUDE. I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!! my mom did the SAME THING with over a years worth of songs i'd written. "they were just folded up pieces of paper, hunny!" what? am i going to frame them on the wall or something? i am so, so sorry.
arinachi 0
FYM **** your mom.
bcbird 0
That really sucks, my first year of college (last year) a janitor went into a teachers room and threw away a lot of the students projects thinking they were trash.
nikki54321 0
Dude that sucks dick. I'd have to kill her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grotesque 0
Your mother is obviously a flaming idiot.