Intimacy: Today, I thought I had carbon monoxide poisoning because I had...

By Anonymous - 04/03/2015 05:12 - United States - Las Vegas

Today, I thought I had carbon monoxide poisoning because I had the symptoms and my detector was going off. I called the fire dept, they checked me, they checked my apartment. My apartment is fine; I'm just out of shape, have high blood pressure, and don't know how to work simple electronics. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/12/2014 02:04 - United States - Yorktown

Today, I was home alone when I heard the carbon-monoxide detector beeping. Panicking, I grabbed my dog, ran out of my house as fast as I could, and waited outside for 3 hours for my mom to get home. Turned out the detector was just out of batteries. FML

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By eyelashess - 29/06/2011 04:10 - United States

Today, our carbon monoxide detector started beeping. My mom started freaking out and made me go stand outside so I "don't die". I stood outside for 20 minutes, it was raining and it turned out that the detector was just low on battery. FML

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By Kelso - 06/02/2010 18:22 - United States

Today, my mother told me that the carbon-monoxide alarm went off last night, but since she didn't smell any gas, she decided to just remove the batteries and go back to bed. I had to explain to her that you can't smell carbon monoxide, and that we could have died in our sleep. FML

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By lollerskate - 16/01/2010 15:37 - United States

Today, my smoke alarm went off. In a frenzy, I called 9-1-1 and exited my house. Several minutes later a fire truck showed up. After investigating, one of the firemen informed me I needed to change the batteries in my smoke alarm. FML

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By GasFromThePast - 24/11/2018 16:40 - United States - Cambridge

Today, I smelled gas when entering my apartment. I checked everything and then left to seek help. I was told to call 911, which resulted in two firetrucks and 10+ firefighters, one of which was my high school sweetheart, entering my messy apartment and finding nothing wrong. FML

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By cutthroatkait - 05/08/2014 22:44 - United States

Today, I picked up an extra shift at the store. It was also the day the store's ventilation system shut down, resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning for me and two co-workers. FML

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Toxic wasteland

By Cinderella - This FML is from back in 2017 but it's good stuff

Today, my house was so dusty that when I started to clean it, the smoke detector went off. FML

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By YoshiSqu4d - 31/07/2020 20:01

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By Ashley - 14/10/2019 22:00

Today, two out of our three smoke detectors were going off. My grandpa won't call the fire department because he thinks our house will be condemned. The alarms are still going off. FML

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The little alarm that cried wolf

By Nice smoke alarm - 05/09/2023 23:00 - United States

Today, my smoke alarm has a tendency to give false alarms. Despite this, it did not go off at all when I was genuinely overcooking food and smoke was everywhere in the house, except for the room I was in. My smoke detector is plotting against me. FML

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Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:01

Better than having carbon monoxide poisoning though!

Sunflower1919 19

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:01

Better to be safe than sorry!

Comments

Sunflower1919 19

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:01

Better to be safe than sorry!

BecauseIAmBatman_fml 22

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:01

Better than having carbon monoxide poisoning though!

Welshite 39

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:13

I almost lost my father to carbon monoxide poisoning. It's nothing to play around with.

Beealicious 13

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:05

Glad your okay!

Steve95401 49

Wednesday 4 March 2015 15:40

Glad you're an English major.

PurpleSprite 7

Wednesday 4 March 2015 22:24

Glad you're tryna teach niggas how to spell on FML. -.-

Jasim 17

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:06

That should be your que to start better yourself.

ilovesoccer1610 31

Wednesday 4 March 2015 22:10

*Cue

sunnyskys 25

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:08

well at least you okay and your house is not slowly killing you.... but YOU really must learn how to plug your blender in right because a good smoothy is never out of the question lol what did the fire fights notice you av jack wasn't plunged into the back of the TV correctly???? I guess they have eye...oh well be safe and try not to feel sick

laden_swallow09 34

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:20

What does his TV have anything to do with… ? He doesn't understand how to work the alarm. Some fire alarms start wailing when the battery is almost out, without smoke or fire.

sunnyskys 25

Wednesday 4 March 2015 14:58

it doesn't say anything about the alarms so stop assuming

CODplayer4lyfe 24

Wednesday 4 March 2015 15:23

It said his detector went off, with a loud noise. Please don't tell me you're being serious, #18

starile 19

Wednesday 4 March 2015 15:25

#18, TVs and blenders have nothing to do the post. The point of him saying he can't work simple electronics is most likely an alarm was beeping, which is why he thought he was getting carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why he wrote the FML. It's simple sense, not assuming. What you said made absolutely no sense.