Today, I had a planned 12-hour power cut for maintenance work, which I'd forgot all about. In need of a shower before work, I spent 45 minutes boiling pots of water on the stove to take a lukewarm, 6-inch deep bath, before realizing my water heater runs on natural gas and was working fine. FML
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Today, the water cut out while I was showering, covered in soap and shampoo. I had to rinse with freezing cold drinking water from the fridge. As soon as I'd dried off, the water supply got restored. FML
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, my flatmate took his hour plus long shower while we both tried to get ready for work. I had a choice to wet myself or pee in a cooking pot. I chose the pot. FML
Today, I woke up to a fog. Literally. A pipe burst in my apartment and scalding water was everywhere. To make matters worse, when I called maintenance he told me he'd come by later, hung up on me, and turned his phone off. He did eventually show up, but it was 5 hours later, well after I'd paid a plumber $200. FML
Today, I went down to my accommodation office in fiery wrath, demanding that something be done about my three-days-cold shower. Looking dubious, they sent someone back with me. As soon as we got there he looked at me with deep pity and pulled the cord in the corner that activated the hot water. FML
Today, as I was shampooing my hair in the shower, the power went out. Since my house has well water, no power means no water. FML
Today, we had to turn the water off due to a massive leak in the kitchen sink that the plumber was currently fixing. I managed to wait two hours before my uncooperative digestive tract said it couldn't wait any longer and I had to take a mega dump in the bathroom. I couldn't flush the toilet or wash my hands. FML
Today, due to an unforeseen pipe-related incident, I had to shave my legs in my backyard fish pond, while a plumber assessed the damage to my war-zone of a bathroom. FML
Today, I tried to fix a leaking pipe under the sink. I watched a YouTube tutorial and was feeling confident that I could get the job done. Two hours later, half of the kitchen was practically flooded because I forgot to cut the water off, and scrambled to actually find the main valve, then I had to call an emergency plumber, who showed up, laughed, and fixed it in five minutes. FML
Today, the gas company came to connect our stove for free. While here, they broke our hot water heater, shut it off, and issued us a hazard notice. We can fix it, but they won't be able to come back for another two weeks to turn the gas back on. We don't have any hot water until then. FML
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Top comments
DjeePee 25
Always check first. Also, wouldn't it be more efficient to boil one or two pots of water and use a simple washcloth?
lovemesomeanth 2
Thank god for running water and water heaters, imagine having to boil your own bath water every single day.
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Comments (103)
outoftown 27
Why morning coffee is such a help. Clears the fuzzy brain before the body follows it.
zuzupetalsYO 11
Wow 45 min out of your WHOLE life wasted. FYL. Not.
dougierocks 13
In 12 hours there should have been enough hot water for a bath... Even if it was electric, The water doesn't instantly turn cold when they cut the power..
Szaszaspasz 26
You are honest enough to admit it. Who hasn't made a mistake before?
BMc1824 0
You didnt realize you had a gas heater as you were using a gas stove?
ScreamingFits 0
So, you were able to boil water on your gas stove, but you weren't able to remember you had a gas water heater? At least I'm assuming it was a gas stove since you need electricity to run an electric stove. YDI.
oldstyl66 7
Dude you still have to plug in a gas water heater. I hope you didn't boil water on an electric stove.
skippydoda 32
I can understand that you may have forgotten that your hot water runs on gas. What I can't understand is why didn't you just grit your teeth and take a three minute cold Navy shower. Really it's one minute to get wet, turn off the water sud up and another two minutes to rinse.
MarineInfantry 0
hmmm was is cause of hurricane Isaac lol I was effected too don't worry I just took a cold shower
jtjtjt 1
I assumed when I opened this, it was going to be a woman's entry...you win this round OP...you win this round...