Today, I had to water my entire garden. After an exhausting hour of watering hundreds of plants, I turned off the hose and started to feel good about the grueling job. That is, until it started pouring rain. FML
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Today, I found out that the peaceful rain I'd been listening to all night was really a broken water-main flooding my entire yard. FML
Today, I looked outside with a grimace at the very heavy rainfall through which I had to trudge a long way. I waited ten minutes for it to let up, only to find it was getting heavier. So, I started walking anyway. After getting soaked to the bone, I walked through my door, and it stopped. FML
Today, three weeks after I finally tried my hand at gardening by planting a bunch of herbs and was so proud of my work, I found out that I had actually been watering weeds this whole time. My herbs were actually the things I was trying to eliminate. FML
Today, I was sitting on my balcony reading a book. My upstairs neighbors thought that would be a good time to water their flowers. I'm now drenched in water, as is my book. FML
Today, it took me more than four hours to set up the back yard for my daughter's baby shower. It only took my husband one push of a button to turn on the sprinklers. FML
Today, in the middle of a localised drought, and an accompanying hosepipe ban, my mother has decided that she still needs to water her lawn. To balance out the water usage, she's placed a complete ban on the use of our shower until the weather lets up. FML
Today, I finished a fence around my house that I have been working on all week. About an hour after I finished, a water company truck pulled into my driveway. They told me they would have to take down my fence to make repairs on a water pipe. FML
Today, after my neighbor asked me to water her plants while she was away, and I carefully followed her instructions for 6 days, she came home. She stared at the living room and asked why I'd watered the fake plants but forgotten the real ones on the balcony. FML
Today, my husband let me sleep in while he worked on the landscaping by our backyard pool. Ready for a shower, I stripped naked, opened the back door to let the dog out, and stepped out to ask him how it was going. Turns out he'd finally hired a landscaping crew. FML
Today, I had to mow the lawn with a weed-whacker because it rained a lot the past week and the push mower was broken. I started "mowing", and forgot that I was mowing where the dogs take dumps, I absentmindedly whacked over dog poop… which got flung into my face. FML
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Top comments
ZeldasSage 0
Aww that sucks! Should've checked the weather forecast, though. =/
paperfox_fml 0
Yeah, it's such ******* hard work holding a hose for 10 minutes.
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Comments (198)
HunnyBunch 0
Damn that sucks. But yeah, you got some exercise :D
googly_moogly 0
YDI, usually you can tell when it's about to rain, cause the clouds are darker.
black_heartz 0
check the weather.. buy a sprinkler for your garden... that could've easily been avoided.
Mattysal 0
Weather aside, it was an 'exhausting hour' of watering plants? Did you use a fire hose? I've never known 1 hour of walking around with a hose to be exhausting. Exercise more, perhaps?
mordantennui 0
Been there done that
macblack 0
Just look at it this way: double the amount of water AND u gotta workout doing it :)
Silver_Eyes 0
Aw... that sucks.
cffarmer 0
I feel your pain. I work at a nursery, and this happens a lot. We check the weather... but the worst is when we KNOW it's going to rain, but we have to fertilize, so the plants get twice the water.
lolzforfun228 3
for the people who say look at the weather forecast: maybe he did. When did anyone say forecast =%100 accurate?
pneumoniaman 0
Today's Forecast A 100% chance of FAIL.