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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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)
hellphone_fml 37
They probably were hungry, when my school was forced to have "healthy" lunches kids wouldn't eat them and would rather starve.
DariaPines 8
Your heart was in the right place,OP.Don't feel bad.
CaliGali 9
Just say it's gluten free
amrose1318 10
Honestly op I think you did a good thing. They where hungry and you fed them before hand. You earned my respect.
Iceberg86300 14
I wouldn't exactly call passing around some snacks feeding them, but definitely taking the edge off! Anyway, comment given a thumbs up! Trying to get info about eating through to hungry kids is about one of the most pointless things ever.
deemarie13 14
If their malnourished have food available that's not on you that's on the idiots who run that.
PizzaboyPB 4
crisps?
lina21 12
If they didn't want someone like you to be nice and feed them cookies, they should've fed them instead of leaving them that hungry looking.
mrsmeowmix 3
If they're malnourished, who cares that you gave them cookies instead of broccoli?
yumyumpower 16
Oh my gosh !!!
MadiSmileHappy 4
well at least you tried??