Today, I found a tiny, featherless baby bird. I knew it was impossible, but I tried to keep it alive through the day. Before I could get it to the wildlife center, it died, and when I got all choked up over it, my mom started laughing at me and saying how "weak" I was. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
Today, my brother and I found a little bird that couldn't fly. While trying to convince my mom that it couldn't fly so we could keep it, I lightly tossed it in the air and it landed a few feet in front of me. Then my cat grabbed it and ate it. FML
Today, I saved a bird from being run over as it lay in the middle of the road. Thinking it had a broken wing or something, I started carrying it home, intending to take it to the vet later. It crapped in my hand and flew away. FML
Today, I witnessed the beautiful sight of a tiny baby bird struggling to take flight from its nest. "You can do it," I muttered, which I guess my asswipe of a cat heard as "Quick, go kill that bird and scar me for life, please." FML
Today, I found out that my mother is extremely emotional when it comes to animal deaths when a bird flew into the window and died, and she insisted we have a funeral. FML
Today, I was caring for a bird that had flown into my window. I thought the poor thing wouldn't make it, when it shit in my hand, flew into my neck, then around my living room for ages before I could manage to get it out of the window. FML
Today, after months of trying to persuade her to give it to a wildlife rescue, I reported my stepmother to the authorities for illegally keeping an endangered bird in the kitchen. When they took it, she screamed that I had no right to do that, as she considered it hers since she found it. FML
Today, I found a bird that had fallen from its nest, so I made a new nest for it in a shoebox and put it as close to the old one as possible. When I checked back on it later, all I found was a chewed-up corpse. FML
Today, my mom was criticizing how I can't handle taking care of any living thing because I'm too irresponsible. We had a huge argument so I went back to my apartment, only to find that my fish had died. I forgot I had a fish. FML
Today, I watched a cat pounce on a small bird and rip it to shreds, feather by feather. It wouldn't have been any worse than mildly disturbing, had I not just spent the last 4 weeks nursing the bird back to health from a broken wing. FML
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Volcan_fml 22
Your mom sounds like a bitch.
Bekll 31
Your mother is heartless. I would have cried too.
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Comments (183)
yentlben 2
Bless you for your kindness. The baby bird didn't die frightened and alone. Your mother, on the other hand, should be exiled. How heartless is she? What a bitch.
BlazeSaber 1
You showed more strength in that tiny amount of time the she probably ever had in her life.
KiddNYC1O 22
You're alright.
spottyblanket 8
:(
SSx0x25 0
aww that sucks :( your mom is pretty mean :S
Polograte 0
Something similar happened to me once. I found a small bird egg, and I showed this to my father. He told me that we couldn't keep it, and proceeded to crack it in the sink. I was 7 then.
ufarooq 1
Lol weak
The_F3rris 11
Whats wrong with showing our humanity? Sympathy and love are the few traits we as human beings have that set us apart from every other animal on this planet.
4thecraic 2
Good on you for at least trying to save a life - even and especially that of a baby bird. The number of posts about absolutely horrible mothers really unnerves me, I must say...
QMAN4000 10
you are not weak dude, you are human. and that is a rare quality these days