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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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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)
joea21 21
You're pretty stupid
mdog2 2
How did the stove work?
Evath 7
Laughed my head off. Don't listen to all the dicks on here telling you that you are stupid, could have happened to anyone.
wikedjest 0
damn that sucks atleast you did the work to take bath if you thought it was only option shows you work hard to be presentable at work
skimonkey96 0
Um doesn't your stove require electricity??
mralman16 5
Depends on what kind and how old your stove is some of the older stoves have pilot lights that are always on 24/7
mralman16 5
If you had a power cut then why is your power on since you need power to pump water in the first place
Shade1982 21
Ehm, no. How do you need power to get running water?
kasiesunshine 7
lol...shoulda just gone with baby wipes and dry shampoo...sucked it up for one whole day and called it good haha
lukey101 26
Hey guys OP here. Finally got an FML account! So the gas hot water & gas cook top work fine without electricity in my house. I would've taken a cold shower but it was the middle of winter at the time and we get morning temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius. Guess I should've tried the hot tap first but hey, first thing in the morning it's survival instincts! I made fire (on the stove) I figured that was my only heat without electricity, as the normal heating runs on electricity here, at first I thought so did the water heater. A lesson learned! Try before you seek alternates. My workmates had a great laugh, and didn't have to put u with a smelly colleague :)
VixieRattler 9
Man, that's bad, I understand the spacey part of a sudden change in the schedule, even though the solution is so obvious
sbarua219 17
Lol