Today, I got roped into a volunteering thing at the last minute. I was waiting outside with all these kids who looked hungry. Feeling bad, I passed around crisps and cookies. Turns out we were at a convention to promote healthy eating in malnourished children. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my friend and I taught a very involved healthy nutrition program to underprivileged youths at a local center. We even made them a healthy snack at the end of the program. Within minutes of the program being over, we caught some of our fellow volunteers feeding the kids Oreos. FML
Today, I'm participating in a 30 hour awareness-raising event on famine in Africa. I'm supposed to hand out leaflets to people from my booth. My school decided to hand out a literal crate-load of free cupcakes right in front of us. FML
Today, I volunteered to cater an event at school. A little girl asked for a big slice of cake so I gave it to her. She then puked everywhere and her parents blamed me and made me clean it up. The little girl sat there smiling at me while I cleaned. FML
Today, I went to a community center event to make friends in a new city. I introduced myself to someone who seemed cool, then realized they were the event organizer who thought I was a volunteer who hadn’t shown up for their shift. They politely asked me to help stack chairs. I spent the night stacking chairs instead of meeting people. Now I’m on the volunteer email list. FML
Today, I was going to volunteer at a soup kitchen. I saw a man working, so I went up to him to ask where I should sign in. Before I even opened my mouth, he told me that they opened at 12 and to come back then for my meal. FML
Today, after spending two hours baking cookies for my niece's school's fundraiser, I packed them into a container and drove to the school. When I got there, the teacher looked confused and said the fundraiser was next Saturday. By the time the actual date arrived, every cookie had been eaten by my family. FML
Today, I was volunteering at a local hospital. I was eagerly introducing myself to all the nurses, as I would be working with them all summer. It wasn't until I got home that I discovered the giant piece of lettuce stuck in my front teeth. So much for first impressions. FML
Today, I stopped at a mini-mart and bought a family-size bag of potato chips, a tub of dip, a box of toaster pastries, and some snack cakes. The guy at the counter said, "Wow, someone's hungry!" I told him it wasn't all for me, paid, and left in a huff. It was all for me. I ate it all by that evening. FML
Today, a friend had invited me to Christmas dinner since I have no family close by. When I got there, she told me that her and her husband had forgotten they had another dinner to go to, and asked if I would watch their kids for them. They each grabbed a handful of cookies I had baked and rushed out the door. FML
Today, I was working at a soup kitchen with people from my church. Seeing a rather disheveled couple, I told them the line started "over there". Only then did I realize that they were from my church, and were there to help serve soup. FML
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Top comments
logic368 8
Who says cookies aren't healthy?
shawnygreen 11
That must have been a weight on your mind!
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Comments (61)
False_Stupidity 42
Who cares, you gave them cookies. Cookies fix everything.
Merridew 8
Crispy cookies
CoGhostRider 31
I can hardly believe you were the only one that thought to feed them before hand. Congratulations OP
catanita 18
It is not your fault that the one who roped you in didn't informed what you were supposed to do.
Zombinosh77 11
Not your fault, at least you were kind enough to give them something to eat.
3molliver3 16
Society needs to loosen up, let kids eat unhealthy sometimes
EmpireCityRay 13
So when "the kids" become obese and/or get diabetes and/or high blood pressure and their health bills are inherited by some state health program you'll be fine with that?! Thanks but no, there's a way to eat nutritiously while letting loose. One has to put the health of the future first over Ronald McDonald and some Grimace looking kid.
erenjaeger 16
They said sometimes, not all the time. Having some McDonalds or some Doritos every once in a while won't hurt you.
Iceberg86300 14
Get fired from Micky D's or something #25? Life is all about moderation. Including one's diet. Cookies or ice cream or whatever is fine to give your kids occasionally, especially if you've been raising them correctly in other areas, like sports or other healthy outdoor activities instead of letting them live in cyberspace 100% of the time. If you lock down treats at home your kids will just gorge themselves outside your supervision.
EmpireCityRay 13
@OP This fml post reads like b.s. WTF volunteers for a cause not knowing what the cause is?! So you show up to volunteer and you go against the purpose?! I call b.s. on this fml post.
ChildrenOfFilth 12
That's just bad luck.
Eitanm 15
At least your heart was in the right place
therealjc_fml 14
How do you show up at a convention and have all kinds of cookies on you to pass out to kids in the first place?
LanceGoodthrust 19
Also, who just hands out food to people who "look hungry?"