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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seesee971 0
Awwwww lol maybe leave it on a tab;e next time?
Wlollpop 0
it took your dad 10 seconds to take one step?
JellyMelly 0
Your dad should help you put it back together.
bdewitt1 0
I remember doing this project as well. I constructed mine in 20 minutes. I failed epically; the key, as I recall, is to spread the toothpicks out to allow the outside toothpicks to break and absorb the collision impact. You should be able to salvage the damage; don't put as much glue the second time around to allow for proper drying time.
LemonFairy 0
First, it's clear that almost everybody who commented did NOT fully read the FML: the project HAD to be made of toothpicks and glue. As somebody who had to make a whole tower that was to support ten times its weight out of uncooked spaghetti and Elmer's white glue ONLY last year I feel your pain OP. I can understand why it would be on the floor, too, if it was a project or mechanism that was larger. (Not sure if you're putting the egg in the project and then dropping the project like most people seem to think, but the wording suggested, at least to me, that you were dropping the egg /into/ it.) FYL. Hope you did okay on the project regardless.
ooohlife 0
i did that in 3rd grade and wrapped the egg in bubble wrap! it's super easy and my egg was fine!
JaggedJacii 0
#61 did you not look at #59's comment? I had to do that project too. And it HAS to be done out of toothpicks and Glue. Mine was quite large(not sure is OP is the same) and had I put it on a table then it would be in the way. I put mine in a corner of the room.
grrrarrrg2 2
I couldn't imagine the OP's could be that big and his dad still end up stepping on it! Unless he meant to....I mean he did step on it for 10 seconds. HAHA YOUR DAD HATES YOU!!!!!
EpicNguyen 0
It took him 10 seconds to step on something? Was he walking in slow motion, or what?
kmoney66 0
Oooo that sux, u mean like the egg drop i did in like 4th grade that took me like 10 mins to make, quit ur whining
coldplaylive2003 0
it's supposed to support an egg after being dropped 20 ft and it couldn't even survive your dads weight fail
BubblesB123 0
Did you make is with uncle Jessie or Joey?