Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing out of toothpicks and glue that will keep an egg from breaking when dropped 20 feet. It took me 10 hours to make it, but only took my dad 10 seconds to step on it and break it. It's due tomorrow. FML
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Today, I stayed up until 2 a.m. building my daughter's birthday present because I wanted everything to be perfect when she woke up. She opened the little oven door on the toy kitchen, and the whole thing collapsed onto the floor. I found an unopened bag of screws sitting on the table. FML
Today, after working like a caffeine-fuelled thunderstorm for 9 hours straight on an art project, my 2 friends informed me that it was due next week. I slept for 10 hours, and then went to my class without my project, thinking I lucked out in the long run. Clearly not, as it was due today. FML
Today, I tried to make a rocket, using Diet Coke and Mentos. It worked pretty well, as both the kitchen window and my chipped tooth can testify. FML
Today, I was taking my architecture project to school. I'd spent days preparing my little model house. I stepped outside with it in my hand, and right at that moment a gust of wind ripped it away. It's currently lying in my neighbour's garden, smashed to pieces. FML
Today, halfway through assembling a toy kitchen for a birthday, I realized the instructions made no sense and half the screws looked identical. I still somehow finished it and felt triumphant until the kid opened the oven door, the whole thing tipped sideways, and I had to spend the rest of the party holding it together with one hand. FML
Today, I cracked an egg which turned out to have an extremely thin shell, so at first contact with the bowl, it came apart in my hand and the contents glooped right through my fingers, all the way down the kitchen cabinet, into a half-open drawer, as well as onto the floor and underneath the cabinet. FML
Today, I was cleaning out the garage and found one of my old science fair projects. It was disqualified for outside help and cheating. I didn't do either. FML
Today, I was finishing up my art project that was due the next day. I was really tired and fell asleep on my table. Three hours later, I woke up to find my project torn to bits. I went out and saw my cat vomiting out feathers and other materials I used for my project. FML
Today, I saw a person in my class completing a project that was due two periods later and that they had just started in the bathroom. They got a better grade than me. FML
Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML
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bobtea 1
YDI for leaving it on the floor.
LemonFairy 0
FAIL people. Re-read the FML. It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue. Toothpicks and glue. Have that key fact down? Good.
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kazkazkazkaz 0
If your dad stepping on it crushed it, it's sure as shit not going to survive a 20 foot fall. Redesign!
Erindub 0
My stinken comment got deleted! WTF?! FML! : )
FatVampire 0
Should have just hard boiled the egg.
perdix 31
If you are stupid enough to leave it right where you dad could step on it, you are too stupid to design a working egg protector. Just take your egg in class and smash it on the wall. It will be more fun than suffering the humiliation of having your device fail and the end result would be the same.
Galex7471 4
You can re-do it really quickly, just construct the whole thing out of foam this time. Every egg-drop I've had to do has taken the weight of the delivery system into account and foam is perfect because it's lightweight, will elastically deform to stresses when it hits the ground, and it will help absorb some of the shock from impact. If it really has to be done from toothpicks and glue, try using a hot glue gun instead of say, elmers, (it should provide a better hold and go more quickly since it will set in a matter of seconds rather than minutes) and quickly reassemble your earlier design. Just keep it up on a shelf and don't let your dad near it this time!
intheflesh 0
Easiest way is just to tape a bunch of balloons together and stick the egg in the middle, works perfectly just secure it carefully
prizefight 0
Don't leave important shit lying around the house! If you want a quick project fix, just get two thick chunks of foam rubber, hollow out a half-egg shape on wach side, put the egg in, tape or glue it together and you're gold. its how i passed mine. I guess you'd have to stick a couple toothpicks in it tho.
epicwinmaster 0
1) why is it on the floor? 2) why does your dad take one step every 10 seconds? You fail on multiple levels. gf.
mabablo 0
YEAH BIRDSONG
couny343 1
mispelled genius 10